naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ

Chickasaw

Etymology

From naafka (“clothing”) +‎ -ꞌ (suffix for forming compound words?) +‎ tapa (“to be cut of”) +‎ -ꞌ (nominalizing verb suffix).

Noun

naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ (alienable)

1. skirt

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)

Nouns in nasal consonants m- or n-, or «airflow» consonants f-, h-, l-, lh-, s-, sh-, w-, y-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	a̠naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ a̠-naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ	po̠naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ po̠-naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ	hapo̠naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ hapo̠-naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chi̠naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ chi̠-naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ	hachi̠naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ hachi̠-naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	i̠naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ i̠-naafkaꞌ tapaꞌ

Synonyms

• alhkonaꞌ