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Hopi
Etymology
From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *hula-wɨt. Compare Cahuilla hunal (“badger”), Cahuilla hunwet (“bear”, literally “big hunal”).
Noun
hoonawu
- bear (mammal of family Ursidae)
Further reading
- A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985) (hoonawu)
- American Anthropologist, volume 17 (1915), page 322 (honauwa)