Taino
Speech parts
1. Taino - Noun
2. Taino - Proper noun
Meaning
Taino (plural Tainos or Taino)
A member of a group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.
Taino
Their Arawakan language, now extinct.
Taino
A municipality in Lombardy, Italy.
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According to the historian Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes by 1548, 56 years after Columbus landed, fewer than five hundred Taino were left on the island.
After its destruction by the indigenous Taino people, the town of Isabella was begun in 1493, on his second voyage.
Census records from 1514 reveal that 40% of Spanish men in Santo Domingo were married to Taino women, Ferbel, Dr. P. J. "Not Everyone Who Speaks Spanish is from Spain: Taíno Survival in the 21st Century Dominican Republic."
Before Columbus shook things up, hammocks were used as above-ground beds by the Taino and later in Mexico and Central and South America.
The Taino believed it was possible to travel to the supernatural realm during cohoba-induced trances.
The word "Quisqueya" derives from a native tongue of the Taino Indians and means, "Mother of all Lands."