Taino

From Taíno taino (“lord, noble, foremost”).

• Taíno

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪnoʊ/

Taino (plural Tainos or Taino)

1. A member of a group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.
   • 2015, Donald H Sullivan, Turnbull's Slaves: A Minorcan Story - Plus Taino, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

     He was accepted as a Taino now and must adapt to their ways.

   • 2016, Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and within Group Differences, Routledge, →ISBN, page 24:

     Following the birth of a baby, Tainos would perform a naming ritual where the child would be pronounced as a Taino and a human being (Keegan, 1997).

Taino

1. Their Arawakan language, now extinct.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Taíno terms

• ISO 639-3 code tnq (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Taino, tnq ⁠

From Italian Taino.

Taino

1. A municipality in Lombardy, Italy.

• -ation, Aiton, Naito, Otani, Tiano, Tonia, anito

Taino ?

1. the municipality of Taino