Etymology · Proto-Cariban
*karipona
5 English words descend from Proto-Cariban *karipona, most common first.
- cannibalAn organism which eats others of its own species or kind, especially a human who consumes human flesh.
- caribA member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
- GarifunaAn individual member of the Garinagu people.
- CarijonaA South American indigenous group.
- Kari'naAn indigenous people native to the north coast of South America (in parts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana), the mainland Caribs or Caribs proper.