Editing Guanches (section)

== Etymology ==
The native term ''guanachinet'' literally translated means "person of [[Tenerife]]" (from ''Guan'' = person and ''Achinet'' = Tenerife).<ref name=EB1911/> It was modified, according to [[Juan Núñez de la Peña]], by the [[Crown of Castile|Castilian]]s into "Guanche".<ref>{{cite book |title=Conquista y antigüedades de las islas de la Gran Canaria y su descripción, con muchas advertencias de sus privilegios, conquistadores, pobladores y otras particularidades en la muy poderosa isla de Tenerife, dirigido a la milagrosa imagen de Nuestra Señora de Candelaria |trans-title=Conquest and antiquities of the islands of Gran Canaria and its description, with many warnings of its privileges, conquerors, settlers and other particularities in the very powerful island of Tenerife, addressed to the miraculous image of Our Lady of Candelaria |year=1676 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cKvrI2UF-LgC&q=%22n%C3%BA%C3%B1ez+de+la+pe%C3%B1a%22+%22guanchos%22&pg=PA167 |language=es}}</ref><!-- Although the variant "guanchos" appears to occur in older Spanish occasionally as well – compare https://www.museosdetenerife.org/assets/downloads/publication-bb67b9fd97.pdf –, close inspection reveals that Núñez de la Peña in his book always writes "Guanches", even at the sole spot where Google Book search claims it says "Guanchos", apparently due to an OCR error. EB1911 is evidently simply mistaken when attributing the variant "Guanchos" to him. --> 
Though etymologically an ancient, Tenerife-specific term, the word ''Guanche'' is now used mostly to refer to the pre-Hispanic Indigenous inhabitants of the entire archipelago.<ref name=RAE>{{cite web |url=http://www.rae.es/guanche |title=''Guanche'' meaning following the RAE Dictionary |language=es}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>