Ayiti's words in English: canoe, hammock, hurricane, barbecue (Ayiti; English from the 1550s)
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Year: 1550 · Places: Ayiti, Europe
SUMMARYAyiti's words in English: canoe, hammock, hurricane, barbecue (Ayiti; English from the 1550s) [Connections: Tech of the Americas, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDEtymonline: canoe, "from Spanish canoa, a word used by Columbus, from Arawakan (Haiti) canaoua," in English from the 1550s; hammock, "from Arawakan (Haiti) word apparently meaning 'fish nets'," via Spanish hamaca, forms from the 1550s; hurricane from Spanish huracan (Oviedo), "from an Arawakan (West Indies) word," first in English in Richard Eden's 1550s Decades of the New World; barbecue, "from American Spanish barbacoa, from Arawakan (Haiti) barbakoa 'framework of sticks set upon posts'," 1690s
PATTERNThe colonizers took the boat, the bed, the storm science and the grill frame, and took the names with them. Adoption of the word is a receipt for adoption of the technology
LENS (WW9)English still speaks Ayiti every time it says "canoe."
OPENEtymonline labels the source "Arawakan (Haiti)," not "Taíno" by name; the Taíno were the Arawakan-speaking people of Ayiti, but cite the label the source uses