pockiero

Yao (South America)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pakira; compare Apalaí pakira, Kari'na pakira, Trió pakira, Wayana pakila, Akawaio pakira, Pemon pakira, Ye'kwana jakiya.

Noun

pockiero

1. a kind of peccary, smaller than the pingo; likely the collared peccary

Further reading

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