chomak

Chickasaw

Etymology

Compare Choctaw hakchoma, Alabama hakchomma, Koasati hakchommi. No cognate can be found in the Northern Muskogean languages, see for example the non-cognate Creek hece. This has lead Broadwell to argue that the split between Northern and Southern Muskogean must have been somewhere between 70 and 290 AD (after the introduction of tobacco to what is now the Southeastern United States)^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃo.mak/

Noun

chomak (alienable)

tobacco

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)


Nouns in ch-, k-, t-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	anchomak an-chomak	ponchomak pon-chomak	haponchomak hapon-chomak
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chinchomak chin-chomak	hachinchomak hachin-chomak
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	inchomak in-chomak

Derived terms

References

^ Broadwell, G. A. (2005). Reconstructing proto-Muskogean language and prehistory: preliminary results. Internet address: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/broadwell/flora.pdf Muskogean glottochronology&hl=en.

[1] Broadwell, G. A. (2005). Reconstructing proto-Muskogean language and prehistory: preliminary results. Internet address: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/broadwell/flora.pdf Muskogean glottochronology&hl=en.

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