hoonawu

Hopi

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *hula-wɨt. Compare Cahuilla hunal (“badger”), Cahuilla hunwet (“bear”, literally “big hunal”).

Noun

hoonawu

1. bear (mammal of family Ursidae)

Further reading

• A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985) (hoonawu)
• American Anthropologist, volume 17 (1915), page 322 (honauwa)