Etymology

boricua

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Puerto Rican Spanish boricua ← Taíno *borīkē
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The story

  1. Taíno · derived from*borīkē
  2. Puerto Rican Spanish · borrowed fromboricua
  3. English todayboricua

From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.

Words from the same roots

Taíno*borīkē all →

Borikén

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.