The story
- Pemon · derived fromtüpü“rocky system, mountain, tepui”
- Spanish · borrowed fromtepuy
- English todaytepui
From Spanish tepuy, from Pemon tüpü (“rocky system, mountain, tepui”), though sometimes erroneously said to be from Pemon tapüi (“house”) in the sense of ‘house of the gods’. Perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Cariban *tôpu (“stone”), though the Pemon etymon is not a direct descendant.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.