Lucayan
noun, adjective
Lucayan is a noun meaning “One of the original inhabitants of the Bahamas before the arrival of Europeans” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-C-A-Y-A-N, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Lucayan is Lucayans.
What does Lucayan mean?
noun
- 1
One of the original inhabitants of the Bahamas before the arrival of Europeans.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to these people.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Lucayan
- Lucayans plural
- more Lucayan comparative
- most Lucayan superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Lucayan?
Lucayan appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Lucayan come from?
Anglicization of Spanish lucayo, derived from the Taino Lukku-Cairi (which the people used for themselves), meaning "people of the islands".
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).