(Sarah of the Clue Crew spins up a clue from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.) It's a Latin American name for different types of grilled meat; here in Brazil, it's cooked on a spit
But what is 
important and special about Tibet is not its the inevitable repugnant ..... have 
derived from ovis, the Latin word for sheep, The Ovins and the Ovinoffs had been 
...... flew west from Africa, I flew south from New York, and we met in Rio de 
Janeiro.