Huaorani

See also: huaorani

English

a Huaorani man and a Huaorani woman

Etymology

From Huaorani huaorani (“Huaorani, true human”).

Noun

Huaorani (plural Huaoranis or Huaorani)

1. A member of a Native American people from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador.

Proper noun

Huaorani

1. The language, a language isolate, which is spoken by these people.

References

• Sophie Day, Euthymios Papataxiarchis, Michael Stewart, Lilies of the field: marginal people who live for the moment
• William L. Balée, Advances in Historical Ecology (2003)