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When I search, I see that "saya" is used in folklore context, so is "saya" a folkloric skirt or only a synonym for "falda"?
Wordreference Spanishdict RAE says "Vestidura talar antigua, especie de túnica, que usaban los hombres./Regalo en dinero que en equivalencia de vestido solían dar las reinas a sus servidoras cuando estas se casaban."
Saya is an archaic synonym of falda. Before it came to mean falda it referred to medieval Spanish style petticoats generally.
It still has currency as a loanword in some languages which Spanish has had contact with: e.g. Cebuano, Asturian, Moroccan Arabic, Tagalog.
