 The indigenous people, the Yamaye (also known as the Taíno), called the island "Xaymaca" in an Arawakan language, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water" or the "Land of Springs".Colloquially Jamaicans refer to their home island as the "Rock".Slang names such as "Jamrock", "Jamdown" ("Jamdung" in Jamaican Patois), or briefly "Ja", have derived from this.