pemoene
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
Further reading
[edit]- de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642