mo'o

See also: Appendix:Variations of "moo"

O'odham

Etymology

From Proto-Tepiman *moʼo (“head”),[1] from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *moʼo (“head”).[2]

Noun

mo'o (plural mo꞉m or mo꞉mĭ) (anatomy)

  1. head
  2. hair (on head), scalp

Derived terms

  • 'Aj-Mo'okam (“Long-Narrow-Headed One (nickname)”)
  • cucul-mo'o (“chicken head”)
  • mo'o-vakon (“to wash one's hair”)
  • mo'obḍam (“deer hunter, head-bearer”)
  • mo'oc (“to have one's head on something”)
  • mo'ocek (“to have one's head bobbing”)
  • mo'ock (“to put one's head down somewhere”)
  • mo'ockuḍ (“pillow”)
  • mo'ockva (“to knock something down with one's head”)
  • mo'ockvup (“to knock something down with one's head repeatedly”)
  • mo'ocud (“to make somebody's hair grow”)
  • mo'ocug (“to move with one's head resting on something”)
  • mo'og (“to be full of hair (in one location)”)
  • mo'ogid (“to shake one's head”)
  • mo'oj (“to stamp”)
  • mo'okam (“one with a head/hair”)
  • mo'okan (“to pop up one's head”)
  • mo'okaḍ (“to pop up one's head”)
  • mo'okaḍaṣ (“to pop up one's head repeatedly”)
  • mo'okvaḍ, mo'ocvig (“tadpole”)
  • mo'omvup (“to bump one's head against something”)
  • mo'opi'ok, mo'otpig (“to scalp something”)
  • mo'ot (“to grow (of hair)”)
  • mo'otaḍ (“to poke one's head out”)
  • mo'otaḍk, mo'ostois (“broomrape (Orobanche ludoviciana)”)
  • mo'otaḍkag (“to be full of broomrapes (in one location)”)
  • mo'ova (“to bump one's head against something”)
  • mo'ovhañ (“Engehmann's hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii)”)
  • mo'ovhañig (“to be full of Engelhmann's hedgehog cacti (in one location)”)
  • mo'ovup, mo'ovop (“to bump one's head against something repeatedly”)
  • mo'oṣ (“head of a bed”)
  • mo'oṣc (“to have one's head against something”)
  • mo'oṣp (“to press one's head against something”)
  • si꞉l-mo'o (“saddle horn”)
  • vipi-mo'o (“nipple, teat”, literally “breast head”)

References

  1. ^ Burton William Bascom, Jr. (1965), “152a. *ˈmoˀo 'head,'”, in Proto-Tepiman (Tepehuan-Piman) (Thesis), Seattle, Washington: University of Washington, 66-5811, page 142
  2. ^ Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1153. *mo’o ‘head’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 208
  • Mathiot, Madeleine (2013), Tohono 'O'odham–English Dictionary‎[2], volume II, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, pages 59–62
  • Saxton, Dean; Saxton, Lucille; Enos, Susie (1983), “mo'o”, in Dictionary: Tohono Oʼodham/Pima to English, English to Tohono Oʼodham/Pima, 2nd edition, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published 1998, →ISBN, pages 42–3
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