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Hopi
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hopi hópi Ho-pi
English
Etymology 1
+ language
From en hop hopi Hopi, good in every respect, be wise or knowing (as in Hopituu sinom "Hopi people"). Popularized by J. Walter Fewkes as a replacement for the previously used and offensive name Moqui which sounds like Hopi mooki dies, be dead.
Pronunciation
en /ˈhəʊ.pi/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hopi.wav Southern England
en /ˈhoʊ.pi/ GA
en əʊpi 2
en ho pi
Noun
s *
A member of a particular tribe of North American natives.
Derived terms
en Hopiness Hopi Reservation
Translations
Note: These are translations for the plural.
tribe
Cahuilla: chl hoopi
French: fr Hopis m-p
Galician: gl hopi
Hopi: hop Hopi'sinom, hop Hopi
Irish: ga Hóipeach m
Navajo: nv Oozéí, nv Ayahkinii, nv Kiisʼáanii
Polish: pl Hopi vr-p
Portuguese: pt hopi m-p
Russian: ru хо́пи m
Proper noun
The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by this North American tribe.
Translations
Hopi language
Dutch: nl Hopi
French: fr hopi m
Galician: gl hopi
Hopi: hop Hopiikwa
Irish: ga Hóipis f
Navajo: nv Oozéí bizaad
Polish: pl hopi m
Portuguese: pt hopi m
Russian: ru хо́пи m
Spanish: es hopi m
Further reading
hop
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en Hebi.
en 1960 September E. Stuart Kirby 1957 April-December Contemporary China https://archive.org/details/contemporarychin0000estu/ III 27052298 278 https://archive.org/details/contemporarychin0000estu/page/278/ A Coal Mine capable of producing 450,000 tons of coal annually started operation in Hopi, Honan.
en 1972 Theodore Shabad The North China Plain China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York w:Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 119 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/119/ Two other major coal-mining centers, each producing coking-grade bituminous coal, have been developed in Honan since the late 1950's. Hopi, in northernmost Honan, arose in 1957 on the site of a small, primitive operation in a deposit of lean coal, low in volatile content. A city was established in that year, and the mining complex was linked by a 12-mile rail spur with Tangyin, on the main Peking-Hankow line.
en June 17, 1975 Walter Sullivan CHINA STUDY LINKS CANCER TO REGION w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20231005075435/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/17/archives/china-study-links-cancer-to-region-supports-data-from-other.html 05 October 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/17/archives/china-study-links-cancer-to-region-supports-data-from-other.html 0362-4331 1645522 66 Death certificates were tabulated to map morality from esophageal cancer in the 181 counties and cities of the survey. The counties with the highest incidences were Yangcheng and Hopi with rates, respectively, of 135 and 140 per 100,000. By contrast, in Hunyuan County the rate was under 2 per 100,000.
en
Anagrams
en hiop IHOP Ipoh OHIP
en Languages Native American tribes Ethnonymsen heteronyms
French
Etymology
fr :bor en:Hopi
fr en Hopi.
Pronunciation
Noun
mfbysense
Hopi person
Related terms
fr hopi
See also
fr Anasazi
Hopis fr
fr Ethnonyms Hopi culture