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The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos, itself a hispanicization derived from the Lucayan Lukku-Cairi, which the people used for themselves, meaning "people of the islands". The Taíno word for "island", cairi, became cayo in Spanish and "cay" / ˈ k iː / in English [spelled "key" in American English]. [1]
Local Taíno/Boricua groups have also begun attempts to reconstruct a distinct Taíno language, called Taíney, often extrapolating from other Arawakan languages and using a modified version of the Latin alphabet. [142] The Guainía Taíno Tribe has been recognized as a tribe by the governor of the US Virgin Islands. [143]
Diego's Lucayan name is unknown, but he was an inhabitant of Guanahani (later San Salvador) in October of 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall during his first voyage. During the fleet's stay at the island from October 12–14, Columbus abducted seven of the Native inhabitants for use as guides and translators, including the future Diego.
Lucayan may refer to: Lucayan Archipelago, comprising the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands; Lucayan people, the original inhabitants of the Bahamas before the arrival of Europeans; Lucayan language, a dialect of the extinct Taíno language; Lucayan Formation, a geologic formation in the Bahamas; a resident of Lucaya, Bahamas
Taino (Lucayan dialect) Big Water Island Little Inagua: Guanahaní: wa+na+ha+ni: Taino (Lucayan dialect) Small Upper Waters Land Ragged Island: Utiaquia: huti+ya+kaya: Taino (Lucayan dialect) Western Hutia Island Crooked/Jumento: Jume(n)to: ha+wo+ma+te: Taino (Lucayan dialect) Upper Land of the Middle Distance Exuma: Curateo: ko+ra+te+wo: Taino ...
Caonabo was not native to Hispaniola, rather he was born on the Lucayan Archipelago of the Bahamas. The historian Bartolomé de las Casas , one of the first Spanish settlers in the Americas , wrote of Caonabo:
Turks is a reference to the indigenous Turk's head cactus and Caicos is from the Lucayan term "caya hico" meaning string of islands, words which entered the natives' language through an early colonist, Bernard Caicos. [3] For almost 700 years, the Taino and Lucayan were the sole residents of the islands, settling mainly in Middle Caicos and ...
He fled to Hispaniola to what now is Dominican Republic after the 1511-16 Taino rebellion. [5] Acanorex: Cacique on Ayiti (currently Hispaniola) [6] Agüeybaná (The Great Sun) Cacique whose name means "The Great Sun" was "Supreme Cacique" in Puerto Rico who welcomed Juan Ponce de León and the conquistadors. His yucayeque was on the Guayanilla ...