Yao (South America)[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *pepeitô. Compare Kari'na pepeito, Ye'kwana jejeichö, jejenchö.
pepeïte
- wind, air
Further reading[edit]
- de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 643