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|'''[[:Category:Lehite PN|Lehite PN]]'''
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|Missionary to [[LAMANITE(S)|L<small>AMANITES</small>]] from [[ZARAHEMLA|Z<small>ARAHEMLA</small>]], ca. 90 BC ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/20.2?lang=eng#1 Alma 20:2]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/21.11?lang=eng#10 21:Preface, 11])
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'''Etymology'''

'''M<small>ULOKI</small>''' could be a gentilic or ''nisbe'' form of '''M<small>ULEK</small>'''/'''M<small>ULOK</small>'''/'''M<small>ULOCH</small>''',<ref>In [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/25.2?lang=eng Mosiah 25:2], the [[Personal Name|PN]] is spelled ''Mulek'' beginning with the 1879 editions. The 1830 edition has ''Mulok'', while the printer’s manuscript has ''Muloch''. See Royal Skousen, [[Royal Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants in the Book of Mormon. 6 Parts. Provo, Utah: FARMS, Brigham Young University, 2004-2009.|''ATV'']] 3:1565-70.</ref>  meaning "Mulekite” ([[John A. Tvedtnes|JAT]]).<ref>John Tvedtnes, “Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon,” 1994 FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture (Provo: FARMS, 1994), 14; Tvedtnes, “Hebrew Names in the Book of Mormon,” in G. Khan, et al., eds., ''Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics'', 4 vols. (Brill, 2013), II:787-788, online at http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopedia-of-hebrew-language-and-linguistics.</ref>  A bulla from Jerusalem from the time of Lehi contains the [[Personal Name|PN]] מלוכי ''mlky'', possibly the Hebrew consonantal spelling of '''M<small>ULOKI</small>'''<ref>John A. Tvedtnes, John Gee, and Matthew Roper.  “Book of Mormon Names Attested in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions,”[[Journal of Book of Mormon Studies|''JBMS'']] 9/1 (2000):50</ref>. The consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible also attests to this [[Personal Name|PN]], מלוכי ''mlwky'' ([https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/neh/12.14?lang=eng Nehemiah 12:14], with Qere ''mlykw''). Ariel Crowley appears to have been the first scholar to suggest that '''M<small>ULOKI</small>''' is related to '''M<small>ULEK</small>''' and that both derive from the '''H<small>EBREW</small>''' root מלך ''mlk'', “to rule, king.”<ref>Ariel Crowley, “The Escape of Mulek,” ''Improvement Era'' 58 (May 1955): 326, n. 4.</ref> 

Another biblical [[Personal Name|PN]] from the same root, Malluch (that appears in [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-chr/6.44?lang=eng 1 Chron. 6:44], [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezra/10.29?lang=eng Ezra 10:29], [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezra/10.32?lang=eng 32], [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/neh/10.4?lang=eng Nehemiah 10:4], [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/neh/10.27?lang=eng 27], and [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/neh/12.2?lang=eng 12:2]), is similar to '''M<small>ULOKI</small>'''. In addition to the final ''i'' being a possible gentilic ending, the ''i'' could be a hypocoristic ending.<ref>For a list and discussion of hypocoristic endings see Noth, [[Martin Noth, Die israelitischen Personennamen im Rahmen der gemeinsemitischen Namengebung. Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament, III, 10. Stuttgart, 1928 /reprint: Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1966.|''IPN'']], 38, where he states, “sehr viel gebraucht ist die Endung ''ī''.</ref> See for example this same root with the hypocoristic ending ''ā'', ''mlkʾ'', and the plene [[Personal Name|PN]] ''mlkyhw''.<ref>Ahituv, 483.</ref> In this interpretation, '''M<small>ULOKI</small>''' would mean “The King is Y[ahweh].” 

Other, non Near Eastern suggestions have been made.<ref>Brian D. Stubbs, in an email communication with Paul Hoskisson, Stephen Ricks, and Robert F. Smith 15 March 2014, observes that the Uto-Aztecan Hopi noun mongi, mongwi, “chief,” may correspond to the [[Personal Name|PN]] Muloki or to Mulek since the Proto-Uto-Aztecan /*u/ > Hopi /o/ and /*l/ > /n/ or /N/ (general nasal) in Northern-Uto-Aztecan, especially in a consonant cluster with k (*-lk- > *-Nk- > -ŋ- being common in Uto-Aztecan), then *mulki > Hopi moŋwi‘leader, head, chief` with residual rounding carried past the /-ŋ-/ makes something like Semitic muleki / mulki > Hopi moŋwi very plausible. Cognate with the Hopi term is Southern Paiute moi- ‘to lead, act as chief,’ whose nasalized vowels make it from ''*moŋi''.</ref>

Cf. Book of Mormon [[MULEK|M<small>ULEK</small>]], [[AMULEK|A<small>MULEK</small>]], [[MELEK|M<small>ELEK</small>]], [[AMALEKI|A<small>MALEKI</small>]], [[AMALICKIAH|A<small>MALICKIAH</small>]], [[AMLICI|A<small>MLICI</small>]].

'''Variants'''

'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' 𐐣𐐊𐐢𐐄𐐗𐐌 (mʌloʊkaɪ)

'''Notes'''
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