There's a snake in my boot!

[Iyionaku]

Wow! - stivale - Stiefel

According to wiktionary, the German word is a loan from Italian, which itself is from Old French estival, further etymology unknown.

[Itlani Jim]

In Itlani:

"Dini zhoyit vesetan eynád zhanyira!"
(In my boot snake find-present-passive-it.")

Most Itlani verbs have a passive form.

"Eynadova dini zhoyit vesetan zhanyavu." (I found a snake in my boot.")
"Eynád dini zhoyit vesetan zhanyira." (A snake is found in my boot.")

Tsiasuk

[Batz]

Naguil

Evirganas fylbe eogarbin budi li.
/ɛˈviːrganas ˈfylbə ɛɔˈgaːrbin ˈbuːdi li/
E-virg-anas fylb-e eo-garb-in bud-i li.
3SG-be.there-PRS.MED snake-NOM 1SG-shoe-LOC hike-ATTR inside.
There is a snake inside my hiking shoe.

[lsd]

3SDL:
a¦a¤Fi¹FÑ­åÑ­¦†_³
(animal in length and in suit containing foot of mine...)

[lurker]

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p  g   rBFq-rnq-Mr  nl-sfsf   rLmq-rG-g
in POS cover-paw-3P is_at-MIR animal-rope-3I
"A rope-animal is in my paw-cover"

A hard one to render in Commonthroat as yinrih don't wear shoes or know what snakes are.

Also relevant.

[Visions1]

Maybe a scaly worm? Worms are basically an evolutionary mainstay.