Editing Luzon (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Luzon'' is thought to derive from {{lang|tl|ᜎᜓᜐᜓᜅ᜔}} ''lusong'', a [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] word referring to a particular kind of large wooden [[mortar and pestle|mortar]] used in dehusking [[Rice production in the Philippines|rice]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Ooi |first=Keat Gin |author-link=Keat Gin Ooi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKgraWbb7yoC&pg=PA798 |title=Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-57607-770-2 |page=798 |access-date=September 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326195754/https://books.google.com/books?id=QKgraWbb7yoC&pg=PA798 |archive-date=March 26, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Roberts1">{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Edmund|title=Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat|year=1837|publisher=Harper & Brothers|location=New York|page=59|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7317/view/1/59/|access-date=October 15, 2013|archive-date=October 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015163349/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7317/view/1/59/|url-status=live}}</ref> A 2008 research paper by Eulito Bautista and Evelyn Javier provides an image of a lusong, explaining:

{{blockquote|Traditional milling was accomplished in the 1900s by pounding the palay with a wooden pestle in a stone or wooden mortar called lusong. The first pounding takes off the hull and further pounding removes the bran but also breaks most grains. Further winnowing with a bamboo tray (bilao) separates the hull from the rice grains. This traditional hand-pounding chore, although very laborious and resulted in a lot of broken rice, required two to three skilled men and women to work harmoniously and was actually a form of socializing among young folks in the villages.<ref name="EulitoandJavier2008">{{Cite journal|last1=Bautista|first1=Eulito U.|last2=Javier|first2=Evelyn F.|date=2008|title=Rice Production Practices: PIDS Research Paper Series 2008-02|url=http://dirp4.pids.gov.ph/ris/rps/pidsrp0802.pdf|journal=Philippine Institute of Development Studies Research Papers Series|publisher=Philippine Institute of Development Studies|pages=44|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-date=August 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815175858/https://dirp4.pids.gov.ph/ris/rps/pidsrp0802.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}

In old Latin, Italian, and Portuguese maps, the island is often called ''Luçonia'' or ''Luconia''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/41470/Exacta_and_Accurata_Delineatio_cum_Orarum_Maritimarum_tum_etjam_locorum/Van%20Linschoten.html|title=Exacta & Accurata Delineatio cum Orarum Maritimarum tum etjam locorum terrestrium quae in Regionibus China, Cauchinchina, Camboja sive Champa, Syao, Malacca, Arracan & Pegu.|last=Van Linschoten|first=Jan Huygen|date=1596|website=Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=September 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901175658/https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/41470/Exacta_and_Accurata_Delineatio_cum_Orarum_Maritimarum_tum_etjam_locorum%2FVan%2520Linschoten.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/3540/Asia_Partiu_Orbis_Maxima_MDXCVIII/Quad-Bussemachaer.html|title=Asia Partiu Orbis Maxima MDXCVIII|last1=Quad|first1=Matthias|last2=Bussemachaer|first2=Johann|date=1598|website=Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=September 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901175659/https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/3540/Asia_Partiu_Orbis_Maxima_MDXCVIII%2FQuad-Bussemachaer.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/25974/India_Orientalis/Hondius.html|title=India Orientalis|last=Hondius|first=Jodocus|date=1606|website=Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200020/https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/25974/India_Orientalis/Hondius.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/45716/Indiae_Orientalis_Nova_Descriptio/Jansson.html|title=Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio|last=Jansson|first=Jan|date=1630|website=Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200939/https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/45716/Indiae_Orientalis_Nova_Descriptio/Jansson.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/23789/India_quae_Orientalis_dicitur_et_Insulae_Adiacentes/Blaeu.html|title=India quae Orientalis dicitur et Insulae Adiacentes|last=Blaeu|first=Willem Janszoon|date=1642|website=Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195847/https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/23789/India_quae_Orientalis_dicitur_et_Insulae_Adiacentes/Blaeu.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/43458/Asia_Noviter_Delineata/Blaeu.html|title=Asia Noviter Delineata|last=Blaeu|first=Willem Janszoon|date=1635|website=Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201427/https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/43458/Asia_Noviter_Delineata/Blaeu.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/42967/India_quae_Orientalis_dicitur_et_Insulae_Adiacentes/Hondius.html|title=India quae Orientalis dicitur et Insulae Adiacentes|last=Hondius|first=Henricus|date=1636|website=Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200149/https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/42967/India_quae_Orientalis_dicitur_et_Insulae_Adiacentes/Hondius.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/30701/Carte_Generale_%20Des_Indes_Orientales_et_des_Isles_Adiacentes/Mariette.html|title=Carte Generale Des Indes Orientales et des Isles Adiacentes|last=Mariette|first=Pierre|date=1650|website=Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200036/https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/30701/Carte_Generale_%20Des_Indes_Orientales_et_des_Isles_Adiacentes/Mariette.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{refbomb|date=September 2024}}

''Luções,'' {{IPA|pt|luˈsõjʃ|}} (also ''[[Luzones]]'' in [[Spanish language in the Philippines|Spanish]]) was a [[demonym]]<ref name="Alfonso2016">{{Cite book |last=Alfonso  |first=Ian Christopher B. |title=The Nameless Hero: Revisiting the Sources on the First Filipino Leader to Die for Freedom |publisher=Holy Angel University Press |year=2016 |isbn=9789710546527 |location=Angeles}}</ref> used by [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] sailors in Malaysia<ref name="Scott1994">{{cite book
  | last = Scott
  | first = William Henry
  | author-link = William Henry Scott (historian) 
  | title = Barangay: Sixteenth Century Philippine Culture and Society
  | publisher = Ateneo de Manila University Press
  | date = 1994
  | location = Quezon City
  | isbn = 971-550-135-4 }}</ref> during the early 1500s, referring to the [[Kapampangan people|Kapampangan]] and [[Tagalog people]] who lived in [[Manila Bay]], which was then called ''[[History of Luzon#History of Luzon during the Classical Period|Lusong]]'' ([[kapampangan language|Kapampangan]]: ''Lusung'', {{langx|pt|Luçon}}), from which Luzon was also derived.<ref name="Pires">{{Cite book |last=Pires |first=Tomé |title=A suma oriental de Tomé Pires e o livro de Francisco Rodriguez: Leitura e notas de Armando Cortesão [1512 – 1515] |publisher=Hakluyt Society |year=1944 |location=Cambridge |language=pt |translator-last=Cortesão |translator-first=Armando |trans-title=The Summa Oriental of Tomé Pires and the book by Francisco Rodriguez: Reading and notes by Armando Cortesão [1512 – 1515] |author-link=Tomé Pires}}</ref><ref name="Lach" /><ref name="Reid" /><ref name="Scott1994" /> The term was also used for Tagalog settlers in [[Southern Tagalog]] region, where they created intensive contact with the Kapampangans.<ref>{{cite book |last=Zorc |first=David |year=1993 |chapter=The Prehistory and Origin of the Tagalog People |editor=Øyvind Dahl |title=Language - a doorway between human cultures : tributes to Dr. Otto Chr. Dahl on his ninetieth birthday |location=Oslo |publisher=Novus |pages=201–211 |url=https://zorc.net/RDZorc/publications/081=Prehistory&OriginOfTagalog[DahlFestschrif].pdf}}</ref> Eventually, the term "''Luzones''" would refer to the settlers of Luzon island, and later on, would be exclusive to the peoples of [[Central Luzon]].