nono aküdü

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

• IPA^(key): [nono akɨːɾ̠ɨ]

nono aküdü

1. a kind of caecilian or amphisbaenian roughly the size of a coral snake with a small, painted head, said to feed on the dead and be an omen of death, to cause bad dreams and loss of appetite in children, to plug up the mouths of baskets, and to be the master (adai) of all the earth spirits

• 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: “Nono acödö”
• 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, pages 60, 192–194, 253: “nono aköödö”
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 244: “nono akudi”