chaklit

Chickasaw

Etymology

Borrowed from English chocolate, from Spanish chocolate, from a Nahuatl word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃak.lit/

Noun

chaklit (alienable)

1. chocolate
2. cocoa

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)

Nouns in ch-, k-, t-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	anchaklit an-chaklit	ponchaklit pon-chaklit	haponchaklit hapon-chaklit
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chinchaklit chin-chaklit	hachinchaklit hachin-chaklit
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	inchaklit in-chaklit

Derived terms

• chaklit losa'
• chalkit palliꞌ