English
iguanodon
Iguanodon comes from Spanish iguana, and goes back to Taíno *iwana ‘iguana’.
- Taínomodern*iwana‘iguana’reconstructed
- Spanishc. 1500–presentiguana
- mul-taxmodernIguanodon
- Englishearliest quotation 1912iguanodon
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Taínomodern*iwana‘iguana’reconstructed
- Spanishc. 1500–presentiguana
- mul-taxmodernIguanodon
- Englishearliest quotation 1912iguanodon
Earliest quotation: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […]: “August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five…”
Every English word from Taíno *iwana
Today it means
noun Any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Taíno *iwana / iguanodon