Before you ask, the poison curare has no connection. According to the same source it's from Spanish or Portuguese and is
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a corruption of the name in the Carib language of the Macusi Indians of Guyana, wurali or wurari, which had a sort of click sound at the beginning, and is said to mean "he to whom it comes falls."
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
