Etymograph

English

Moqui marble

Moqui marble may come from English Moqui ‘Hopi’.

  1. English1500–presentMoqui‘Hopi’uncertain
  2. EnglishtodayMoqui marble

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentMoqui‘Hopi’uncertain
  2. EnglishtodayMoqui marble

Made of the words Moqui + marble

Hopi mookwi

English Moqui

Ancient Greek μάρμαρος ‘anything made of marble’

Latin marmor ‘a block or piece of marble’

Old French marbre ‘marble (stone)’

Middle English marble

English marble

The story

Probably from Moqui (‘Hopi’), although a folk etymology claims that it comes from the near-homophonous Hopi mooki (‘dead’).folk etymology The source marks this as unproven or a folk etymology. Quoted, not asserted.

Every English word from English Moqui

Today it means

noun Any of a group of iron oxide concretions, shaped like small balls, found in the Navajo Sandstone Formation in Utah.

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

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