chokfi

Alabama

chokfi

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *čokxʷiCi (“rabbit”). The sense of “sheep” only came later after they were introduced by the Europeans colonizers. Cognate with Choctaw chukfi, Alabama chokfi, Creek cufe.

chokfi (alienable)

If one wants to distinguish between the sense of “rabbit” and “sheep”, one can use chokfalhpoobaꞌ (“sheep”) (which uses the specifier alhpoobaꞌ (“domesticated”)).

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)


Nouns in ch-, k-, t-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	anchokfi an-chokfi	ponchokfi pon-chokfi	haponchokfi hapon-chokfi
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chinchokfi chin-chokfi	hachinchokfi hachin-chokfi
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	inchokfi in-chokfi

chokfi (transcription chókfih, alienable)


possessive (alienable)	singular	paucal	plural
first-person ("my, our")	a̱chokfi	pi̱chokfi	hapi̱chokfi
second-person ("thy, your")	chi̱chokfi	hachi̱chokfi
third-person ("his, her, its, their")	i̱chokfi


-ma "that, there"	-pa "this, here"	-kia "also, too"	-ba "only"	-ōk "but"	-akhī pejorative
chokfima	chokfipa	chokfi(hak)kia	chokfiba	chokfihōk	chokfihakhī

chokfi