Chickasaw[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From kanihmi (“some kind of”) + -oꞌsi (diminutive verb suffix).
kanihmoꞌsi
- a bit, a little bit [placed at the beginning of the clause]
kanihmoꞌsi (noun subject)
- to be just a little (but maybe not enough)
- to be just a few (but maybe not enough)