pemoene

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Yao (South America)[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Macushi pemon (person), Pemon pemon (person, people); in many Cariban languages the words for ‘person’ and ‘twenty’ are identical.

Numeral[edit]

pemoene

  1. twenty

Further reading[edit]

  • de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642