Etymograph

English

Mohawk

Mohawk comes from Dutch Mohawk, and goes back to Narragansett Muh-heck.

  1. NarragansettmodernMuh-heck
  2. Dutchc. 1500–presentMohawk
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. NarragansettmodernMuh-heck
  2. Dutchc. 1500–presentMohawk
  3. Englishtodaysame form

The story

The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanienʼkehá꞉kaʼ (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).

Every English word from Narragansett Muh-heck

Today it means

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.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Narragansett Muh-heck / Mohawk

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