Taino words in Dominican Spanish

[Mirador]

Originally Posted by Mirador

"Allí había muy mucho algodón y muy fino y luengo, y hay muchas almácigas, y parecíale que los arcos eran de tejo, y que hay oro y cobre: también hay mucho axí, ques su pimienta, della que vale más que pimienta, y toda la gente no come sin ella, que la halla muy sana..."

Notice how the archaic 'hallar' instead of 'encontrar' is still used in the campo? For example, 'me lo hallo bueno', instead of 'lo encuentro bueno'.

[M.A.R.]

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”

[Mirador]

Originally Posted by M.A.R.

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”

Mangú - The Taino must have been very intelligent people, the never ate mangú. Since plantains (and related species) arrived in the New World after the Conquest.

Tabuco - is indeed a Taino word, a refers to a place of wild shrubs.

Yagua - also Taino, a species of palm.

Petaca - is a Nahuatl, derived from 'petlacalli'

Macutu - is Taino, a straw basket or bag.

Saqueta - is Spanish, from 'saco' (bag).

Juron or Hurón - were unavailable to the Taino. The hurón or ferret was imported by the Europeans for hunting purposes.

Guano - is Quechua, from 'huanu' (dung)

Bejuco (not bohuco) is indeed Taino, a vine.