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Taino, a. and n.|ˈtaɪnəʊ|
[a. Taino taino noble, lord, app. first applied to the people by Rafinesque.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating an extinct Arawakan people formerly inhabiting the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas.
B. n.
a. (A member of) this people.
b. Their language.
1836C. S. Rafinesque Amer. Nations I. vii. 215 (heading) The Haytian or Taino language restored, with fragments of the dialects of Cuba, Jamaica, Lucayas, Boriquen, Eyeri, Cairi, Araguas. Ibid. 562 The Aruac and Taino altho' belonging to the same group, are distinct Languages. 1871D. G. Brinton Arawack Lang. Guiana 10 In Haiti, there was a tongue current all over the island, called by the Spaniards la lengua universal... Rafinesque christened it the ‘Taino’ language, and discovered it to be closely akin to the ‘Pelasgic’ of Europe. 1953Caribbean Q. II. iv. 30 Possibly the Arawaks had maize. Their neighbours the Tainos of Hispaniola used maize, according to early settlers there. 1983Verbatim IX. iii. 1/1 Taino, an extinct language of a people that lived in the greater Antilles and the Bahamas, especially in Hispaniola. 1989Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 748/1 Cuba's original inhabitants came to the island from South America... The Taino constituted 70 to 80 percent of the island's population at the time of the Spanish conquest. |