"So this is irrelevant. It was probably maliksi." Mark HUBEY

You are not serious. If the informants pronounced each syllable distinctly
and uttered [lig] there must have been be some reason. They could have
pronounced [lik] : there is not the slightest difficulty for a Tagalog
speaker to utter [lig] or [lik].

Jean-Paul G. POTET, FRANCE