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Taíno
or Tai·no
[ tahy-noh ]
noun
, plural Taí·nos, (especially collectively) Taí·no
- a member of an Indigenous Arawakan tribe of the Caribbean: the Taíno once dominated the populations of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, but today the Taíno line survives as part of mixed ethnicity.
- the Arawakan language spoken by the early Taíno people.
Taino
/ ˈtaɪnəʊ /
noun
- -nos-no a member of an American Indian people of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas
- the language of this people, belonging to the Arawakan family
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Taíno1
First recorded in 1835–40; from Taíno: literally, “the noble, men of the good”
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