mohawk
/ˈmoʊhɔːk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
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.
name
The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.
name
Mohawk River, the largest tributary of the Hudson River, New York.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Mohawk.
Etymology
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Mohawk, Mohowaúgsuck
Inflected Forms
Mohawks (plural)
"Mohawks" in all other senses (plural)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of Mohawk terms
Frequently Paired Words
Wiktionary’s coverage of Mohawk terms