taino vocabulary

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basic taino word used throughout....with definition
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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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