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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From yedü (“tooth”) + akü (“a kind of worm or snake”) + -dü (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘worm of the tooth’.
Pronunciation
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: “yeedö aköödö”