Yami

[ yah-mee ]

noun

, plural Ya·mis, (especially collectively) Ya·mi

1. a member of an Indonesian people of Hungtow Island, off the southeastern coast of Taiwan.
2. the Austronesian language of the Yami.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Yami or their language.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Yami¹

First recorded in 1910–15; from Yami: literally, “people of the north wind,” equivalent to i- locative prefix + ami “north (wind),” i.e., north of the Ivatan and Itbayat peoples, their closest associates

Example Sentences

For wife he has the spirit of the clouds and waters, Apsaras, and by her became father of the first mortals, Yama and Yami.

From Project Gutenberg