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