MUTUAL AID

PPH *aluyun
‘mutual aid, as in farm work or house-building’

Inibaloi	adoyon ‘system of mutual and reciprocal work (the farm family gains manpower by asking for help from their neighbors, and is in return obligated to reciprocate with work for their neighbors in their fields, repairing irrigation canals, building a house and the like)’
Mansaka	aroyon ‘to help one another (in work activity)’

Cebuano 	aláyun
Tagalog	bayaníhan
Indonesian	gotong royong
Aklanon	sagibín
Ilokano	tagnáwa
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Cebuano aláyun n group of people who work together on jobs on a more or less permanent basis. The person for whom the job is done has an obligation to repay each worker with an equal amount of time. v 1 [A2C; b5c4] work on the aláyun basis. Alayúnun (alayúnan) nátù ang pagpananggì, We’ll harvest on the mutual help basis. Alayúnan tika karun, ug impas na, I’ll work for you now, and we’re all square. 2 [A3; b6(1)] do s.t. as a favor. Nag-aláyun siya nákug hatud ngadtu, He did me the favor of taking me there. Alayúni siyag panghúgas, Do him the favor of helping him wash the dishes. Ialáyun kug kúhag túbig, Please get me some water. 2a please. Aláyun, ambi ra nang libru, Please, give me that book. ka- n one with whom one has an aláyun arrangement. -an n work obligation one has.
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009.	*aluyun ‘mutual aid, as in farm work or house-building’ 
IBL adoyon ‘system of mutual and reciprocal work (the farm family gains manpower by asking for help from their neighbors, and is in return obligated to reciprocate with work for their neighbors in their fields, repairing irrigation canals, building a house and the like)’
MSK aroyon ‘to help one another (in work activity)’
NOTE: This sparsely attested, but culturally important comparison, documents a practice that must have been all but universal in Neolithic societies, namely, the need for cooperative labor with work projects that everyone needed at some time, but no one could do alone, such as building a house, bringing in the harvest, and the like (as evidence that it extended beyond the Philippines, it is the national concept of gotong royong (mutual aid) in Indonesia.
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Email to: Jason Lobel
2020.12.17
**IMPORTANT ** FLASH **. Blust found a PPH etymon for {mutual aid} *aluyun shared by Inibaloi and Mansaka. I only know the Tagalog (bayaníhan) and Aklanon (sagibín) for this concept. Blust cites Indonesian gotong royong in his note. I double-checked the Internet to insure that <mutual aid> is an accurate English term for this phenomenon. I really think that this should be added to our “essential” but ever-growing  elicitation wordlist". Check out <Mutual_aid (organization theory)-Wikipedia>, for example. I suspect this is going to have a lot of unique representations (i.e., non cognates). In fact, I am surprised that a PPH form can be established. What thinkest thou?, my friend.
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