taino vocabulary

Pregunta	Respuesta
anagua	a piece of cloth worn over the loins
guanine	alloy of gold and copper
remora	a sucker fish used to catch turtles
utia	a small animal......a kind of coney basically a rabbit
agouti	an animal whose meat they enjoyed
alcos	a barkless dog
yautia	a root crop
cassareep	sauce made of cassava juice
batey	central plaza for tainos
bohio	two largest buildings in arawak community......cacique lived there
caney	village meeting place
zemis	carved idol
conucos	cultivated plots of land
nitainos	lesser chiefs....they were below the cacique in hierarchy
naborios	the labour force
duho	ceremonial stool carved out of wood/stone in the shape of an animal
coyaba	heaven
cohoba	powdered tobaco
tabaco	pipe that cohiba leaves were smoked through
cohiba	tobacco plant
batos	ball game
areytos	epic poems
taino	good/noble

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