Moki

or Mo·qui

[ moh-kee ]

noun

, plural Mo·kis, (especially collectively) Mo·ki.

1. Hopi ( def 1 ).

moki

/ ˈməʊkɪ /

noun

1. either of two edible sea fish of New Zealand, the blue cod ( Percis colias ) or the bastard trumpeter ( Latridopsis ciliaris )

Word History and Origins

Origin of Moki¹

Māori

Example Sentences

Why did the guides, if they belonged in the Moki towns, conduct Cardenas so far to show him a river which was so near?

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The solution seems to be that he started from some locality other than the present Moki towns.

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From Zuni he went to the Moki towns, then five in number, and possibly somewhat south of the present place.

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These people had told him about the distance to Moki and the nature of the intervening region.

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On the following day the same ceremony was performed on a larger scale at Walpi, the easternmost of the Moki villages.

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