Arawaks

ar;a;wak pronunciation: function: noun inflected form(s): plural arawak or arawaksetymology: earlier arwaca, aroaca, an arawak subgroup of 16th century trinidad, perhaps from an arawak name for the subgroupdate: 1769 1 : a member of an indian people of the arawakan group now living chiefly along the coast of guyana2 : the language of the arawak people