Language of the Voiceless: Traces of Taino Language, Food, and Culture in the Americas From 1492 to the Present

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P a g e | 105 Lo que dice del lino debe querer decir cabuya, que son unas pencas como la çábila de que se hace hilo y se puede hacer tela o lienzo dello, pero más se asemeja al cáñamo que al lino; hay dos maneras dello, cabuya y nequén: la cabuya es más gruesa y áspera, y el nequén más suave y delgado; ambos son vocablos desta isla Española. In the quote above de Las Casas places the word henequen in the Taino linguistic context and clarifies the origin of the term as Taino by sustaining that “the terms cabuya and nequén are both from the Indians of Hispaniola”. Furthermore, de Las Casas makes a very important description of the Taino cultural and artisanal usage of these items defining them as “string from which they made cloths similar to linen”. However, it is Fernandez de Oviedo who gives the best description of the many usages of henequen in Taino culture. In his writings Oviedo states: que quieren, assi déla cabuya como del henequén; é aprovéchansse dello en muchas cosas, en especial para hacer los hicos ó cuerdas de sus hamacas ó camas en que duermen, y encabuyadlas, para que estén colgadas en el aire. In the quote above, Oviedo makes the point that “the Taino took great advantage of the versatility of henequén and that they used the string to tide [[is this a type, do you mean “to tie their hammocks?]] their hammocks”. Two things are essential from Oviedo’s quote, first the spelling with the prefix he, different from Las Casas, and second, the way Oviedo describes the usage of henequén is similar to that of the Wayuunaiki described above at the beginning of the description of the etymology of this word. Chapter XIII, page 57
P a g e | 106 y con muchos indios de su servicio. Y tenían allí gallinas de la tierra y pan de maíz, de lo que ellos suelen comer, y frutas que eran piñas y zapotes, que en otras partes llaman a los zapotes mameys. The next word from BDC’s text is mamey > ‘Lucuma mammosa’. This term is very significant because its abnormal suffix, mam is not too common within surviving Taino phonology. The very few samples of the phonetic formation of this prefix can be found hidden within few words today such as “Bahomamey, Bahamam, aymamón” 150 and in South America, Yonomami, an Amazonian tribe related to the Arawak. The suffix, on the other hand, is a very common term among Taino grammatical formation. Described in pages above as ‘important’, ‘great’ or ‘central’ e.g. can-ey > ‘house of the cacique’, bat-ey > ‘central field’, catar-ey > ‘immense sea turtle’, Atab-ey > ‘goddess of sea and nature’, this suffix is one of the most prevalent words among surviving Taino terms. Therefore, based on this comparison alone, the term can be associated with Taino phonology. However, it is the toponym Mamee used to describe a bay region in Jamaica that seems to further cement the Taino nature of this word. Unfortunately, unlike many other words that made it to the mainland and overpowered their synonyms, mamey did not have the same luck. In fact, it became relegated to the Spanish Caribbean and very few other regions of New Spain as a specific variety of the Nahuatl tzapotl term by which the fruit is known in Spanish today a zapote or sapote. As a matter of fact, Diaz del Castillo emphasizes in the same text that “they call the sapote, mamey in other 150 (García Bidó, 2010)
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