abikoppoloꞌ

Chickasaw

Etymology

From abikaꞌ (“disease”) +‎ oppolo (“to be no good”) +‎ -ꞌ (nominalizing verb suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bi.kop.poˈloʔ/

Noun

abikoppoloꞌ (alienable)

1. plague
2. epidemic
3. serious disease (like AIDS or diseases of similar severity)

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)

Nouns in vowel-, b-, or p-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	amabikoppoloꞌ am-abikoppoloꞌ	pomabikoppoloꞌ pom-abikoppoloꞌ	hapomabikoppoloꞌ hapom-abikoppoloꞌ
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chimabikoppoloꞌ chim-abikoppoloꞌ	hachimabikoppoloꞌ hachim-abikoppoloꞌ
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	imabikoppoloꞌ im-abikoppoloꞌ