chokka-chaffaꞌ

Chickasaw

Etymology

From chokkaꞌ (“home”) ‎ chaffa (“to be one in number”) ‎ -ꞌ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃok.ka.t͡ʃaf.faʔ/

Noun

chokka-chaffaꞌ (alienable)

1. family

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)

Nouns in ch-, k-, t-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	anchokka-chaffaꞌ an-chokka-chaffaꞌ	ponchokka-chaffaꞌ pon-chokka-chaffaꞌ	haponchokka-chaffaꞌ hapon-chokka-chaffaꞌ
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chinchokka-chaffaꞌ chin-chokka-chaffaꞌ	hachinchokka-chaffaꞌ hachin-chokka-chaffaꞌ
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	inchokka-chaffaꞌ in-chokka-chaffaꞌ