moʼa
Hopi
Noun
moʼa
- mouth (bodily orifice)
Further reading
- 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.'