chirika

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Yao (South America)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tirikô (star).

Noun

chirika

  1. star

Further reading

  • de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 643