pockiero
Yao (South America)
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *pakira; compare Apalaí pakira, Kari'na pakira, Trió pakira, Wayana pakila, Akawaio pakira, Pemon pakira, Ye'kwana jakiya.
Noun
[edit]pockiero
- a kind of peccary, smaller than the pingo; likely the collared peccary
Further reading
[edit]- de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 643