nakfish
Choctaw
Etymology
Compare nakfi (“brother (of a woman)”)
Noun
nakfish (transcription nakfísh, inalienable)
- (obligatory possessive) younger sibling of the same sex
- his younger brother(s)
- her younger sister(s)
- its younger sibling(s) (of the same sex)
- their younger sibling(s) (of the same sex)
- of a younger sibling (of the same sex), of the younger sibling(s) (of the same sex)
Declension
| possessive (inalienable) | singular | paucal | plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| first-person ("my, our") | sanakfish | pinakfish | hapinakfish |
| second-person ("thy, your") | chinakfish | hachinakfish | |
| third-person ("his, her, its, their") | nakfish | ||
| absolute | nominative | accusative | oblique | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| neutral | nakfish | nakfishat | nakfisha | nakfishak |
| contrastive | nakfishakō | nakfishakōsh | nakfishako | nakfishakakō |
| nakfishato | nakfishano | |||
| focus | nakfishō | nakfishakō | ||
| nakfishōsh | nakfisho |
| -ma "that, there" | -pa "this, here" | -kia "also, too" | -ba "only" | -ōk "but" | -akhī pejorative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nakfishma | nakfishpa | nakfish(ak)kia | nakfishba | nakfishōk | nakfishakhī |