pemoene

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

1. twenty

Further reading

• de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642