chomak

Chickasaw

Etymology

Compare Choctaw hakchoma, Alabama hakchomma, Koasati hakchommi. No cognate can be found in the Northern Muskogean languages, see for example the non-cognate Creek hece. This has lead Broadwell to argue that the split between Northern and Southern Muskogean must have been somewhere between 70 and 290 AD (after the introduction of tobacco to what is now the Southeastern United States)[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃo.mak/

Noun

chomak (alienable)

  1. tobacco

Inflection
Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)
Nouns in ch-, k-, t- SingularPluralInclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our") anchomak
an-chomak		ponchomak
pon-chomak		haponchomak
hapon-chomak
2nd-person ("thy, your") chinchomak
chin-chomak		hachinchomak
hachin-chomak
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their") inchomak
in-chomak

Derived terms
  • chomak aaholbonaꞌ
  • chomak apaꞌ
  • chomak botaꞌ
  • chomak hishiꞌ
  • chomak hoboona
  • chomak holbaꞌ
  • chomak holbonaꞌ
  • chomak i̱shokcha
  • chomak palaskaꞌ
  • chomak po̱fa
  • chomak shanaꞌ
  • chomak shoboochi
  • chomak shotiꞌ
  • chomal aapo̱faꞌ

References
  1. Broadwell, G. A. (2005). Reconstructing proto-Muskogean language and prehistory: preliminary results. Internet address: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/broadwell/flora.pdf+Muskogean+glottochronology&hl=en.
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