List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

• achira (Quechua)
• aguacate (Nahuatl awakatl)
• ajolote (Nahuatl axolotl)
• alpaca (Quechua allpaqa)
• amate (Nahuatl amatl)
• anticucho (Quechua anti uchu)
• atole (Nahuatl atolli)

• barbacoa (Taino)
• batata (Taíno)
• bejuco (Taino)
• biznaga
• bohío (Taino)

Borike′n Taino name for Puerto Rico

• boricua (Taino)Inhabitants of Borike′n
• borinqueño adaptationfrom the Taino word Boricua

• cacahuate/cacahuete (Nahuatl kakawatl)
• cacao (Nahuatl)
• cacique (Taíno)
• cacomistle, cacomiztle, cacomixtle (Nahuatl kakomixtli)
• caimán (Taíno)
• calato (Quechua)
• calincha (Quechua qharincha)
• calpulli (Nahuatl kalpulli)
• camote (Nahuatl kamohtli)
• cancha (Quechua kancha)
• caníbal (Taíno)
• canoa (Taíno)
• cañihua (Quechua qañiwa)
• caoba
• capulín
• caraota
• Caribe (Taíno)
• caribú
• carioca
• caraqueño
• casava (Taíno)
• catre
• caucho (Quechua)
• casabe, cazabe (Taíno)
• casava (Taíno)
• cayo (Taíno)
• ceiba (Taíno)
• chaco (Quechua chaku)
• chacra (Quechua chakra)
• champa (Quechua ch'ampa)
• charqui (Quechua ch'arki)
• chayote (Nahuatl chayotl)
• Chía (Quechua)
• chicle (Nahuatl tsikitl)
• chilacayote (Nahuatl)
• chile, chili (Nahuatl chilli)
• chinchilla (Aymara)
• chirimoya (Quechua chiri muya)
• choclo (Quechua chuqllu)
• chocolate (Nahuatl xokolatl)
• choro (Quechua ch'uru)
• coca (Quechua kuka)
• condor (Quechua kuntur)
• concho (qunchu)
• coronta (Quechua q'urunta)
• coquí (Taíno)
• coyote (Nahuatl koyotl)
• curaca (Quechua kuraka)
• cuate (Nahuatl koatl)
• Cuba (Taíno)

• ejote (Nahuatl exotl)
• elote (Nahuatl elotl)

• gaucho (Quechua and Mapuche)
• guacamaya, guacamayo
• guacamole (Nahuatl awakamolli <awakatl+molli>)
• guagua (Quechua wawa)
• guajolote (Nahuatl huehxōlōtl)
• guanábana
• guanaco (Quechua wanaku)
• guano (Quechua)
• guaraní
• guayaba (Taíno)
• güiro

• Haití (Taíno)
• hamaca
• henequén
• hicaco
• huaca (Quechua)
• huaco (Quechua)
• huaraca (Quechua warak’a)
• huayco (Quechua)
• hule
• huracán (Taíno)

• iguana (Taíno)
• inca (Quechua inka)
• ixtle (Nahuatl)

• jacal
• jaguar (Guaraní)
• Jamaica (Taíno)
• jíbaro
• jícama (Nahuatl xikámatl)
• jícara
• jitomate
• jobo

• llama (Quechua)
• lempira
• loro

• mabí, maví (Taíno)
• macana
• macanudo
• maguey (Taíno)
• maiz (Taíno)
• mamey (Taíno)
• manatí (Taíno)
• mandioca (Nheengatu/Guaraní manio'k / mandio)
• mangle (Taíno)
• maní
• mapache (Nahuatl mapachtli)
• maraca
• maracuyá
• mate ('drink')
• maya
• mecate (Nahuatl mekatl)
• mesquite (Nāhuatl mizquitl)
• mico (Voz cumanagota)
• milpa (Nahuatl milpan)
• mixteco (Nahuatl mixtekatl)
• mole ('sauce', Nahuatl molli)
• morocho (Quechua muruch'u)

• náhuatl
• nana (Quechua ñaña')
• nigua
• nopal (Nahuatl nopalli)

• ñandú
• ñapa, yapa (Quechua)

• ocelote (Nahuatl ocelotl)
• ocote (Nahuatl okotl)
• ojota (Quechua ushuta)
• olmeca (Nahuatl olmekatl)

• palta (Quechua)
• pampa (Quechua)
• papa (Quechua)
• papaya (Taíno)
• pécari
• petaca
• petate
• pinole
• pita (Quechua)
• popote (Nahuatl, popotl)
• poroto (Quechua purutu)
• poto (Quechua putu)
• pozole (Nahuatl, pozolli)
• pulque (Classical Nahuatl poliuhqui octli)
• puma (Quechua puma)
• pupo (Quechua pupu)

• quechua (Quechua qhichwa)
• quena (Quechua)
• quetzal (Nahuatl)
• quiltro
• quincha (Quechua qincha)
• quina (Quechua kinakina)
• quinua, quinoa (Quechua kinwa)
• quipu (Quechua khipu)
• quisqueyano

• sabana (Taíno)
• sonsote, cenzotle
• soroche (Quechua suruchiq)

• tacho (Quechua tachu)
• tamal (Nahuatl tamalli)
• tamandua
• tambo (Quechua tampu)
• tapioca
• tarahumara
• tepehuán (Nahuatl Tēpēhuanih, Tepēhuāntin, Tēpēhuanitlahtōlli, and/or Tepēhuahcān)
• tequila (Tecuilah)
• tiburón (Taíno)
• tiza (Nahuatl, tizatl)
• tomate (Nahuatl tómatl)
• tucán
• tuna
• tuza (Nahuatl)

• vicuña (Quechua wik'uña)
• vizcacha (Quechua wisk'acha)

• wincha (Quechua wincha')

• yuca
• yuyo (Quechua yuyu)

• zacate (Nahuatl zakatl)
• zapallo (Quechua sapallu)
• zapote (Nahuatl zapotl)
• zapoteca (Nahuatl zapotekatl)
• zopilote (Nahuatl zopilotl)

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• china= feminine form of chino, see chino below
• chino= a person indigenous to the Americas, a mestizo, a servant: from Aymara (or Quechua) china "female animal, servant"

• arepa = a typical maize bread ; a pancake, a thin cake, fried or roasted made of maize flour (from Carib arepa)
• canoa = a typical dugout canoe made by the native Amerindians (from Carib kanawa)
• curiara = a typical dugout canoe made by the native Amerindians (from Carib kurijara)

chuco = adv (comp)

Quechuan /ˈkɛtʃwən/, also known as runa simi ("people's language"), is a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably some 8 million to 10 million speakers

• canoa = a typical dugout canoe made by the native Amerindians (from Taíno canowa)

• Guarani language: ñandú, ananá, guaraná, tatú, cajú, yacaré.
• Nheengatu language: tapioca (< typyʼók-a), jaguar (< jawár-a), mandioca (< maniʼók-a), tucán (< tukán-a) o tapir (< tapiʼír-a).

• buqui = boy/child
• bichi = nude