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17 Φεβ 2012 · Jocomo Fee Nan Nay is Jacouman Fi na dé “Jacouman urges it; we will wait.” Of course, that loose interpretation arises more questions than answers, such as “who is Jacouman?”
12 Φεβ 2013 · Jacouman Fi na dé Jacouman urges it; we will wait. Meanwhile, Wikipedia says some mysterious, unnamed "creole lingua specialists" endorse the following French-based Creole interpretation: Ena!...
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Jakamo Fi Na Ye is also, whether coincidentally or not, the phrase "The black cat is here" in Bambara, a West African Manding language. In a 1991 lecture to the New Orleans Social Science History Association, Sybil Kein proposed the following translation from Yoruba and Creole:
Hey now!Iko iko wan deyJock-a-mo fi no wan an deyJock-a-mo fi na ney. Everyone has recorded it a little differently, but no one who recorded it knew what it meant.
So the whole line: "Jockomo fee no wah na nay" is:"Jacquemot fi nou wa nan né" meaning "Jacquemot made our King into born" (in English: Jacquemot gave life to our King) and "Jockomo fee na nay" is: "Jacquemot fi nan né" meaning "Jacquemot made into born". In this sense it means "Jocomo made it happen".
If you Google “Iko Iko” or “Aiko Aiko” or “Jockomo” or “Jock-A-Mo” (All different titles for the same song) you’ll find many fascinating articles full of transliterations of a language variably described as Native American, or West African, or French Creole.
