Etymology

Hokan

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Today it means: A hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico. Full definition →

Atsugewi hoqi
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  1. Atsugewi · borrowed fromhoqi
  2. English todayHokan

From Atsugewi hoqi. While the first proposals by Dixon and Kroeber rested on very limited cognate sets comprising only five words, later assessments by Sapir included hundreds of putative cognate sets and analyses of Hokan morphosyntax.

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