From which language does the word "buccaneer" derive?

Buccaneers were privateers or free sailors in the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established on northern Hispaniola in 1625, their heyday was in the thirty years from 1660, during a time when governments were weak and did not attempt to suppress them.

The term “buccaneer” was taken from the Spanish “bucanero” which in turn was derived from the Caribbean Arawak word “buccan,” a wooden frame on which Tainos and Caribs slowly roasted or smoked meat. From it came the French word “boucan” and hence the name “boucanier” for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat (“viande boucanée” from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola. The English anglicised the word “boucanier” to “buccaneer.”

The name applied to the local hunters was later applied to their “customers,” the pirates and privateers of the Caribbean. Privateers were private persons or ships that were nominally licensed by the authorities: viewed from London, buccaneering was a budget way to wage war on England's rival, Spain. The English crown granted buccaneers “letters of marque,” legalising their operations in return for a share of their profits. Some buccaneers were invited by Jamaica's governor to base their ships at Port Royal: they would rob Spanish shipping and colonies and then return to Port Royal with their plunder, making the city the most prosperous in the Caribbean. Their activities went on irrespective of whether England happened to be at war with Spain or France.