Hozomeen

English

Etymology

From Salishan, perhaps specifically Thompson [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊ.zəˌmin/

Proper noun

Hozomeen

1. A mountain in Washington, United States.
   • 1965, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels, page 3:

     […] and after that first time suddenly realizing “It’s me that’s changed and done all this and come and gone and complained and hurt and joyed and yelled, not the Void” and so that every time I thought of the void I’d be looking at Mt. Hozomeen (because chair and bed and meadowgrass faced north) until I realized “Hozomeen is the Void—at least Hozomeen means the void to my eyes”—Stark naked rock, pinnacles and thousand feet high protruding from hunch-muscles another thousand feet high protruding from immense timbered shoulders, […]

Further reading

• Hozomeen Mountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia