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Garifuna
Etymology
From Kalinago oibáyaoüa (“shark”) (attested as such in Fray Breton’s 1665 Carib-French Dictionary), itself borrowed from a Cariban language, most likely Kari'na aipajawa (“shark”).
Noun
weibeyuwa
- shark
References
- Breton, Raymond (1665) Dictionaire caraïbe-français [Carib-French Dictionary] (in French), Éditions Karthala, published 1999, →ISBN, page 197.