kafi'
Chickasaw
Etymology
From French café or possibly from English coffee. Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé[1], from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Noun
kafi' (alienable)
- coffee
Inflection
Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)
| Nouns in ch-, k-, t- | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st-person ("my, our") | ankafi' an-kafi' | ponkafi' pon-kafi' | haponkafi' hapon-kafi' |
| 2nd-person ("thy, your") | chinkafi' chin-kafi' | hachinkafi' hachin-kafi' | |
| 3rd-person ("his, her, its, their") | inkafi' in-kafi' | ||
References
- Etymology and history of “cafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “kafi'”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.