hoonawu

Hopi

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *hula-wɨt. Compare Cahuilla hunal (“badger”), Cahuilla hunwet (“bear”, literally “big hunal”).

Noun

hoonawu

  1. bear (mammal of family Ursidae)

Further reading
  • A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985) (hoonawu)
  • American Anthropologist, volume 17 (1915), page 322 (honauwa)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.