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Yao (South America)
Etymology
Compare Macushi pemon (“person”), Pemon pemon (“person, people”); in many Cariban languages the words for ‘person’ and ‘twenty’ are identical.
Numeral
pemoene
- twenty
Further reading
- de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642