waakasi

Hopi

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language (e.g. Classical Nahuatl huācax), from Spanish vacas, plural of vaca, from Latin vacca.

Noun

waakasi (plural waawakast)

1. cow, cattle

Derived terms

• wakasheva
• wakashoya
• Wakaskatsina
• wakaski
• Wakaskuku
• wakaskyahaki
• wakaslalayi
• wakaslöhavu
• wakasmana
• wakasmori
• wakasnina
• wakassihu
• wakassikwi
• wakastana
• wakastaqa
• wakastiyo
• Wakasva
• wakasvena
• wakasvukya
• wakasvòoko
• wakaswihu
• wakaswùuti
• wakasʼala
• wakasʼuʼuyi

 

References

• Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 105
• Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 725