Etymograph

English

gibnut

Gibnut comes from Belizean Creole gibnat, and goes back to Miskito ibina.

  1. Miskitomodernibina
  2. Belizean Creolemoderngibnat
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1883gibnut

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Miskitomodernibina
  2. Belizean Creolemoderngibnat
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1883gibnut

Earliest quotation: 1883, Archibald Robertson Gibbs, The Labour Question—Climate—Productions—Flora and Fauna—and : “The woods abound in game and wild animals, the…”

Every English word from Miskito ibina

Today it means

noun A paca (“a large rodent of the genus Cuniculus native to Central America and South America, which has dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides”).

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