hoonawu

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Hopi

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Etymology

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

Noun

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hoonawu

  1. bear (mammal of family Ursidae)

Further reading

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  • A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985) (hoonawu)
  • American Anthropologist, volume 17 (1915), page 322 (honauwa)
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