bashpo

Chickasaw

Etymology

From basha (“to be sawed”) +‎ -po (intensitive formative) or bashli (“to cut”) +‎ -po. Compare Choctaw bashpo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /báʃ.po/

Noun

bashpo (alienable)

1. knife

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)

Nouns in vowel-, b-, or p-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	ambashpo am-bashpo	pombashpo pom-bashpo	hapombashpo hapom-bashpo
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chimbashpo chim-bashpo	hachimbashpo hachim-bashpo
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	imbashpo im-bashpo

Derived terms

• bashpaalhpiꞌ
• bashpihaloppaꞌ
• bashpo chakchakiꞌ
• bashpo falaaꞌ
• bashpo ishtimpaꞌ
• bashposhiꞌ