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📚 noun • entry_id 50691

Taino

/ˈtʌɪnəʊ/
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taíno
A member of a group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.
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).
He was accepted as a Taino now and must adapt to their ways.
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