Mohawk

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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. 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.
3. (historical) A member of a gang (the Mohocks) that terrorized London in the early 18th century.

Name

1. The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.
2. Mohawk River, the largest tributary of the Hudson River, New York.

Conceptos

mohawk

cresta

mohicano

iro

mohaqués

Sinónimos

𐐐𐐬𐐸𐐪𐐿

Traducciones

mohawk

Mohawk

moicano

Mohawk

mohawk

hanenkam

الموهوك

Μοχόκ

mohawk

crête iroquoise

Mohawk

Cyclope

Irokesenschnitt

Irokese

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmoʊhɔːk/

Etimología (Inglés)

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).