Yao (South America)[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *wapoto. Cognate to Apalaí apoto, Kari'na wàto, Ye'kwana wa'to.
ouapoto
- fire
Further reading[edit]
- de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 643