North American native people of Algonquian stock, from Mahican (Algonquian) ma:hi:kan "people of the tidal estuary." The spelling with -o- was popularized by James Fenimore Cooper's novel (1826). Mohegan is a variant form.
mogul
mohair
Mohammed
Mohammedan
Mohawk
Mohican
moiety
moil
Moira
moire
moist
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