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canoe

Canoa was among the very first Taíno words Columbus wrote down in 1492, and the first American word to appear in a Spanish dictionary; it spread through every European language, and English canoe later named a sport.

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The road to English

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From French to Haitian Creole

From French to Turkish

From Spanish to Portuguese

From Spanish to Italian

From Spanish to Dutch

From Spanish to Russian

From Spanish to Tagalog

From English to German

From English to Irish

1492Taíno

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