Yao (South America)[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate to Ye'kwana waamonö, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *amo (“to weep for”); compare Kari'na amo.
ouamonu
- to cry, to weep
Further reading[edit]
- de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 643