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