Maquiritari

English

Alternative forms

• Makiritare

Etymology

From Spanish Maquiritare, said to be from an Arawakan language, with a meaning “people of the rivers, water people”.

Proper noun

Maquiritari

1. Synonym of Ye'kwana (“A Cariban language of Venezuela and Brazil”).

Noun

Maquiritari (plural Maquiritari)

1. 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