footi

Chickasaw

Alternative forms

• vooti

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote, from Latin vōtum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foː.ti/

Verb

footi

1. (active voice, intransitive) to vote

Inflection

Class I Verb Subjects (Active)

Verbs beginning with a consonant.	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we)	footili footi-li	iifooti / iliifooti / liifooti ii-footi / ilii-footi / lii-footi	iloofooti iloo-footi
2nd-person (you, you all)	ishfooti ish-footi	hashfooti hash-footi
3rd-person (he, she, it, they)	footi	(hoo)footi (hoo-)footi

Derived terms

• imfooti (“to vote for something or somebody”)