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