Tsidi (< Span. chile). Hano Tewa, tsini.
Pepper. New Mexican Spanish chile, pimiento.
In Tewa, as in English, both kinds of ‘pepper’ (Span. chile and pimiento; Ger. Paprika and Pfeffer) are called by a single name.
The Navaho “curse word” tsindi, ‘wizard,’ ‘witch,’ ‘devil,’ is known to some of the Tewa and sounds very similar to their tsidi, ‘pepper.’
The chile pepper of the varieties which bear fruits that are eaten green is called in Tewa tsidi tsanwæ'in, ‘green chile’ (tsidi, pepper; tsanwæ, blue, green), and in New Mexican Spanish chile verde or chile de California. The Tewa of Hano call commercial pepper tsini tsanwæ'in, ‘blue chile,’ because it is gray or bluish.
Chiles are strung on yucca slips and dried for winter use, ground to powder on a metate, and cooked with meat or eaten as sauce with tortillas.
A string of chiles is called tsidi k'ato (tsidi, chile; k'ato, string. […]
One sentence omitted at […]: it repeats another writer's judgment of how much chile the Pueblo peoples ate. Harrington's phonetic marks on Tewa words (underdots, accents, the eng) are simplified to plain letters.