English word origin

Etymology of Taino

Borrowed from Taíno taino (“lord, noble, foremost”).

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗

noun

A member of a group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.

name

Their Arawakan language, now extinct.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Borrowed from Taíno taino (“lord, noble, foremost”).

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗

name

A municipality in Lombardy, Italy.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Italian Taino.

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

Borrowed-form mentionTainoit

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