Meanings
nounTaiyal pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlyA tribe of Taiwan.
Among the Taiyals, a tribe of mountaineers in the interior or Formosa, when the new grain is cooked for the first time, the youngest boy of the family must eat some of it before the others.
1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 565
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