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 | 93 with three different names, but eventually being mostly identified with the first name in subsequent texts. Yet again, what is extremely striking is that in the same text by Pané, the first Yúcahu term is identified by the name Yúcahuguamá when describing a ceremony by a Taino man. In fact, this term is phonetically composed of voicings shared by both groups and some that are exclusively Taino as if shared by people who spoke both tongues. For example, yuca > ‘manioc’ and hu > ‘lord’ is found in both variant languages. Surprisingly, the term guamá meaning the same thing, ‘lord’ or ‘sir’, is found only in Taino. It is as if the Taino and the Cigüayo—Macoríx had similar religious traditions with regards to yucca, and this commonality was reflected in the names of their deities around this tuber. Furthermore, in an analysis of the yócahu term, scholar Juan José Arrom enumerates the primary sources lexicalized variants of the term in the following manner: Pane-Ulloa —locahu Mártir —loca'u Las Casas, —Yocahu Pané-Ulloa, —Gioca'u Las Casas, —Yocahu Although I disagree with Arron’s interpretation of the meaning of the term as ‘people of the higher waters’, this classification sheds some unique phonetic facts about Taino and Carib possible phraseology of the word. Those writers who were in contact with the Macorí such as Pané and Ulloa, lexicalize the term as two different sounds ioca + hú. Those in contact with a Taino speaking population, such as de Las Casas, use the term as one single phonetic block, Yocahu. On the other hand, those sources
P a g e | 94 describing the term from the secondary source perspective, such as Peter Martyr, seem to combine the term with both primary sources’ phonology. What makes me disagree with Arron’s interpretation is, that symbolically speaking, the Carib term for island is cai or kaya which is phonetically closer to the original Amazonian term ioc+ai described above to refer to little mountains of dirt under which we find the root called yuca. Moreover, the Taino trigonoliths all look like a mountain or the way an island is perceived from the ocean. This lets me to believe that there is a very strong connection between all these ocean migratory groups and the ioca as common symbol of origin. This is said, because the second part of the deity’s name Yúcahu Bagua Maórocoti is translated as bagua > ‘ocean’, as if an iocai —dirt mountain in an ocean. However, after establishing this term as a central Taino word based on its etymology and primary source context, our continuation of BDC’s text gives us one of the first primary sources that places yuca, a Taino Pre-Columbian term and primary food source, in the context and practive of Nahuatl agriculture. Also, this paragraph of BDC’s text illustrates how the peninsula of Yucatan was named from the corruption of the Nahuatl itzotl > ‘yucca’ into “tlati” and from the lexicalization of the Spanish accompanying BDC, who joined both terms into Yucatlati, later becoming Yucatan. Even Diaz del Castillo at the end of the paragraph makes the observation that “the name Yucatan did not exist in the mainland language, but that the name stuck” 143 . Number of mentions of the word yucca in The True History of the Conquest of New Spain including the cross reference of the three manuscripts: 13 143 (Diaz del Castillo, Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espana| Aparato de Variantes, 1632)
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