kafiꞌ
Chickasaw
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French café or possibly from English coffee. Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé,[1] from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Noun
[edit]kafiꞌ (alienable)
Inflection
[edit]Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)
| Nouns in ch-, k-, t- | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st-person ("my, our") | ankafiꞌ an-kafiꞌ |
ponkafiꞌ pon-kafiꞌ |
haponkafiꞌ hapon-kafiꞌ |
| 2nd-person ("thy, your") | chinkafiꞌ chin-kafiꞌ |
hachinkafiꞌ hachin-kafiꞌ | |
| 3rd-person ("his, her, its, their") | inkafiꞌ in-kafiꞌ | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Etymology and history of “cafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.