nono aküdü

Maquiritari

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [nono akɨːɾ̠ɨ]

Noun

nono aküdü

  1. a kind of caecilian or amphisbaenian said to feed on the dead and be an omen of death, and to cause bad dreams in children

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 228
  • Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 60, 192–194, 253
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