jomi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	jomi
Brazilian standard	fomi
New Tribes	jomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷomi]

Noun

jomi (possessed jomichü)

1. chili pepper, Capsicum frutescens
2. spice, hot sauce prepared from the chili pepper

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jomi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 289, 390: “[homị] 'spice, seasoning sauce' […] homi -ho:mi:' -chü 'hot sauce' […] homi - peppers, spice, hot sauce”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “homi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “jömi”