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Mohawk

//ˈmoʊhɔːk// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.
  2. 2
    Mohawk River, the largest tributary of the Hudson River, New York.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations.
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Mohawk. alt-of
  3. 3
    haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp wordnet
  4. 4
    A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.
  5. 5
    the Iroquoian language spoken by the Mohawk wordnet
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  1. 6
    A member of a gang (the Mohocks) that terrorized London in the early 18th century. historical
  2. 7
    a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Dutch Mohawk. An exonym, probably from Narragansett Mohowaúgsuck, Mauquàuog, meaning “they eat (animate things)”, “cannibals”. The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanienʼkehá꞉kaʼ (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).

Etymology 2

From Dutch Mohawk. An exonym, probably from Narragansett Mohowaúgsuck, Mauquàuog, meaning “they eat (animate things)”, “cannibals”. The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanienʼkehá꞉kaʼ (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).

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