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Mohawk

See also: mohawk

English

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Mohawk Valley and River
 
Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution
 
Mohawk hairstyle

Etymology

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From Dutch Mohawk. An exonym, probably from Narragansett Mohowaúgsuck, Mauquàuog, meaning “they eat (animate things)”, “cannibals”.[1] The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanien'kehá:ka (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).

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Noun

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

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Translations

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  • (indigenous person): Note: These are translations for the plural.

Proper noun

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Mohawk

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

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Roger Williams (1643) A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 16

Further reading

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From Narragansett Muh-heck.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Mohawk

  1. The Mohawk people
  2. The Mohawk language
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