kafiꞌ

Chickasaw

Etymology

From French café or possibly from English coffee. Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

Noun

kafiꞌ (alienable)

1. coffee

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)

Nouns in ch-, k-, t-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	ankafiꞌ an-kafiꞌ	ponkafiꞌ pon-kafiꞌ	haponkafiꞌ hapon-kafiꞌ
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chinkafiꞌ chin-kafiꞌ	hachinkafiꞌ hachin-kafiꞌ
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	inkafiꞌ in-kafiꞌ