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語源

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).

発音

• IPA: /ˈmoʊhɔːk/

名詞

Mohawk (plural Mohawks or Mohawk) (either plural for the indigenous people; plural "Mohawks" in all other senses)

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.

   Synonyms: mohawk, Iroquois, (UK, Australia) Mohican

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

派生語

• (hairstyle): brohawk, deathhawk, dreadhawk, fauxhawk, frohawk
• Mohawkism

固有名詞

Mohawk

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

参考

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mohawk terms

参照

Further reading

• Mohawk people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mohawk River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mohawk language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mohawk hairstyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Mohawk, moh ⁠