Taíno

Or Tai·no

[tahy-noh]

noun

plural

Taínos ,

plural

Taíno .

1. 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.

2. the Arawakan language spoken by the early Taíno people.

Taino

/ ˈtaɪnəʊ /

noun

1. a member of an American Indian people of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Arawakan family

Word History and Origins

Origin of Taíno¹

First recorded in 1835–40; from Taíno: literally, “the noble, men of the good”

Example Sentences

“The name’s Lala. And this ship here is called the Taíno.”

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The Taíno’s horns bellow through the sea.

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Vines, branches, and plants weave together into a thicket that is longer and thicker than the hull of the Taíno.

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The 65th was designated in 1920; its nickname, adopted during the Korean War, stems from Borikén, the Indigenous Taíno name for Puerto Rico.

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Matias, whose Indigenous Nations are Taino and Kichwa, said a more suitable day to honor Native people would be the “summer solstice, which is a powerful day for Indigenous people all over the world. It might be some sort of day that we recognize generally correlating with our connection to the planet.”

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