Etymology

Yanomamo

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Today it means: A member of an Indian people of Venezuela and Brazil. Full definition →

Yanomamö yãnomãmɨ
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The story

  1. Yanomamö · borrowed fromyãnomãmɨ“man, human being”
  2. English todayYanomamo

From the form Yąnomamö stripped of its diacritics, itself from Yanomamö yãnomãmɨ (“man, human being”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.