Etymograph

English

Roatan

Roatan comes from Spanish Roatán.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentRoatán
  2. EnglishtodayRoatan

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentRoatán
  2. EnglishtodayRoatan

The story

From Spanish Roatán, a hispanicized form of a Pech name meaning, "water of the sun". The island had been formerly named by Christopher Columbus as Isla de los Pinos (‘Pine Island’).

Every English word from Spanish Roatán

Today it means

name An island, the largest of the Bay Islands, a department of Honduras, in the Caribbean Sea.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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