1. Taino - Noun
2. Taino - Proper noun
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.
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. Source: Internet
After its destruction by the indigenous Taino people, the town of Isabella was begun in 1493, on his second voyage. Source: Internet
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." Source: Internet
Before Columbus shook things up, hammocks were used as above-ground beds by the Taino and later in Mexico and Central and South America. Source: Internet
The Taino believed it was possible to travel to the supernatural realm during cohoba-induced trances. Source: Internet
The word "Quisqueya" derives from a native tongue of the Taino Indians and means, "Mother of all Lands." Source: Internet