hoonaw

== Hopi == === Alternative forms === hoonawu === Etymology === From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *hula-wït, augmentative of *hula (“bear; badger”). Cf. honani (“badger”). === Noun === hoonaw (plural hoohont) bear ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Albert, Roy; Shaul, David Leedom (1985), A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 23 Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998), Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 97