Cahokia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Miami kahokiaki (“wild geese”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈhəʊ.ki.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈhoʊ.ki.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊkiə

Proper noun

Cahokia

1. A former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.
   • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 170:

     The city of Cahokia and the surrounding villages and farms became the most extensive urban center in prehistoric North America, but the agricultural networks extended widely within the American Midwest and Southeast.

2. (historical) A Native American tribe now considered extinct.
3. A village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, across the Mississippi River from Saint Louis, Missouri.

Derived terms

• Cahokian
• Cahokia Heights