Tainos

Variant of Taino

Taino definition

Taino (tī′nō)

noun pl. Tainos -·nos or Taino -·no

  1. a member of an aboriginal Indian people of the West Indies, extinct since the 16th cent.
  2. the Arawakan language of this people

Etymology: < Taino nitayno, the first, the good

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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