Taíno words in the Puerto Rican Vocabulary

areyto - Taíno ceremony that includes song, music, dance, and history barbacoa - a 4 legged stand made of sticks used for cooking batea: large tray batey - yard area - bohio - typical round home of Taínos Boricua - valiant people Borikén - Great Land of the Valiant and Noble Lord burén - flat cooking plate or griddle cabuya - fishing line cacique - chief canarís: water vessels caney - square house for Chiefs and Shammans only canoas/piraguas/cayucas/kurialas: canoes Caribe -strong people casabi - yuca bread cibucanes: used to extract poinsonous juice from Yuca coa - farming tool - a wooden stick used to work the soil cokí - coquí - small tree frog colibri - hummingbird conuco - farming area - mounds of loose soil cucubano - lightning bug ditas y jitacas: food vessels made from higüero dujo - chair with short legs fotuto - sea shell trumpet guanín - chief's medallion Guaraguao - red tailed hawk guatiao - exchanging named and becoming blood brothers iguana - lizard Inrirí - Wood Pecker jamaca - hammock jicotea - land turtle jurakan - storm jutía - small rabbit-like creature Lukiyó - sacred mountain mabí - fermented drink made from Mabí tree macana - weapon - club mime - small fly nagua - loin cloth used by married women nasa: fishing mesh or net natiao - brothers tabacú - tobbaco uguaca - parrot Yocahú - God yucayeque - Taíno village