Native American vs Paleo-Amerind

Paleo-Amerind vs Native American

Native American and Paleo-Amerind both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but Paleo-Amerind is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No
Paleo-Amerind	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Paleo-Amerind is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Paleo-Amerind is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Native American:

Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Paleo-Amerind: a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch

Other hyponyms of Native American include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, Injun, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Arawakan, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Native American (noun)	Paleo-Amerind (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch

Native American (adjective)	Paleo-Amerind (adjective)
of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Native American and Paleo-Amerind

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