Hochunk HO

[Rankin, Robert L]

As a monosyllabic noun, /ho:/ 'voice, fish' is always long.  I don't
know its status in the compound.  As I recall from Miner, some of these
automatically lengthened monosyllables lose their length in larger
constructs.  Others may not.  It's an empirical question.  As for the
penultimate /a/of Hocangara, I assume "Dorsey's Law" vowels are "real"
to speakers, and, according to Lipkind, short, unaccented /a/ is often
[schwa] anyway.