yedü aküdü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	yedü aküdü
Brazilian standard	yedö aköödö
New Tribes	yedö acöödö

Alternative forms

• dedü aküdü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

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

1. (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^[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 180: “yeedö aköödö”