chompa

Chickasaw

Alternative forms

• chumpah (Humes' spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *čowmpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃom.pa/

Verb

chompa

1. (active voice, transitive) to buy

Inflection

Class I Verb Subjects (Active)

Verbs beginning with a consonant.	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we)	chompali chompa-li	iichompa / iliichompa / liichompa ii-chompa / ilii-chompa / lii-chompa	iloochompa iloo-chompa
2nd-person (you, you all)	ishchompa ish-chompa	hashchompa hash-chompa
3rd-person (he, she, it, they)	chompa	(hoo)chompa (hoo-)chompa

Derived terms

• aachompa
• aaimaachompa
• aainchompa
• chohómpa
• chompachi
• ibaachompa
• imaachompa
• inchompa
• ittibaachompa
• nanna chompa

Descendants

• Mobilian: chõpa

Spanish

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English jumperbor.

Spanish chompa

Borrowed from English jumper. Doublet of chomba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃompa/ [ˈt͡ʃõm.pa]
• Rhymes: -ompa
• Syllabification: chom‧pa

Noun

chompa f (plural chompas)

1. (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Uruguay) jumper, sweater

   Synonym: chaleco

2. (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama) bomber jacket

   Synonym: cazadora

Further reading

• “chompa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “chompa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010