moʼa

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Hopi[edit]

Noun[edit]

moʼa

  1. mouth (bodily orifice)

Further reading[edit]

  • A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985)
  • Ekkehart Malotki, Hopi Time: A Linguistic Analysis of the Temporal Concepts (→ISBN, 1983): The temporal adverb mòoti, whose root mòo- may be reflected in such derivatives as mo'a 'mouth' and mongwi 'leader/head person,' translates 'at first.'