dedü aküdü

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• yedü aküdü (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deɾ̠ɨ akɨːɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

dedü aküdü

1. (Cunucunuma 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^[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 180