chimmi

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Chickasaw

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Pronoun

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chimmi

  1. yours

Choctaw

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Etymology

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From chim-.

Pronoun

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chimmi

  1. (now chiefly Oklahoma Choctaw, archaic in Mississippi Choctaw) thine, yours

Inflection

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emphatic possessive‡
singular paucal plural singular paucal plural
first-person ano
sashno
pishno hapishno ammi pimmi hapimmi
second-person chishno hachishno chimmi hachimmi
third-person yamma ilap
Recent analogous formation in Mississippi Choctaw. Considered substandard.
First- and second-person are archaic in Mississippi Choctaw, where the emphatic pronouns are used for possession instead.