>>9103185English words derived from Taíno are: canoe, cassava, cay, hammock, hurricane, iguana, macana, maize, and potato, as well as possibly mangrove, tobacco, and savanna.[4]:229
Taíno loanwords in Spanish are: agutí, ají, cacique, maguey, nigua, tiburón, and tuna, as well as the previous English words in their Spanish form: canoa, casabe (although in Dominican Spanish it is the name of a fish),[8] cayo, hamaca, huracán, iguana, macana,[9] maíz, patata, manglar, tabaco and sabana.
Place namesEdit
Taíno etymologies of place names:[6]
Grand Bahama: ba-ha-ma 'large-upper-middle'
Bimini: bimini 'twins'
Inagua: i-na-wa 'small eastern land'
North Caicos: ka-i-ko 'near-northern-outlier'
Boriken (confederated kingdom of Puerto Rico): boriken, boriquen, bori ("native") -ke ("land") "native land"
Jamaica: Ya-mah-ye-ka "great spirit of the land of man"