Not sure if these are Taino words but I like them and some I've learned from being in the campo. I wonder if these words are taught to the school children and their origins.????
Mangu mashed plantains
Tabuco wild shrubs
Yagua I know this word to describe those sheets
That fall off the palm trees, and children use it
Slide down the hills for fun and also made into a water
Retaining container, I remember they used it to soak clothes.
Which they call petaca, I know Mexicans call luggage petacas
And also slang for buttocks.
Macuto straw sack
Saqueta shoulder straw bag
Juron is that a taino word I hear the campo people use
To refer to a roden like animal that would terrorize the chickens, never saw it myself
Guano those mini palm trees, used to make the brooms that you
See in the DR and used to make the straw hats and bags, etc.
Bejuco? I always thought it was bohuco and of course the campensinos
Called it bojuco
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