RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117173888912375614
okay had to undust my knowledge of #Taíno vocabulary to make a list of autochthonous american idioms that originated with my ancestors:
ananás
arepas
bahami ➝ Bahamas
barbacoa ➝ barbecue
batata ➝ patata ➝ potato
caicú ➝ cayú ➝ cay
canoa ➝ canoe
caribe
casabe ➝ casaba ➝ cassava
chayote
conuco
coquí
Cuba
guayaba ➝ guava
hacha ➝ hachet
iguana
jamaca ➝ hamaca ➝ hamoc
Jamaica
juracán ➝ huracán ➝ hurricane
maihs ➝ maíz ➝ maize
macana
manatí
maraca
Mayagüez
papaya
tabaco
yuca
RE: https://mastodon.world/@ombialik/117173539610648496
our originario ancestors were doing genetics experiments with all sorts of flora because from teosinte they got maíz, aka corn:
the word MAÍZ or MAIZE comes from what my Taíno ancestors called corn:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zea_mays#Terminolog%C3%ADa
btw lots of autochthonous american words come from the Taíno language: barbecue, hurricane, maize; just to name a few.
