yedü aküdü

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

dedü aküdü (Cunucunuma River)

Etymology

From yedü (“tooth”) +‎ akü (“a kind of worm or snake”) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘worm of the tooth’.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɟeɾ̠ɨ akɨːɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

yedü aküdü

(Caura River dialect) a kind of caterpillar or small worm said to inhabit fruit and cause ritual pollution within it

References

Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 180

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