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English
Etymology
From Spanish Maquiritare, said to be from an Arawakan language, with a meaning “people of the rivers, water people”.
Proper noun
Maquiritari
- Synonym of Ye'kwana (“A Cariban language of Venezuela and Brazil”).
Noun
Maquiritari (plural Maquiritari)
- Synonym of Ye'kwana (“A speaker of this language or member of a tribe that speaks it”).
References
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 6