Where does “hwdelkʼiiʼ” come from?
hwdelkʼiiʼ (Ahtna) comes from Ahtna d-, from Proto-Athabaskan də-, from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də-.
hwdelkʼiiʼ (Ahtna): it (an area, place) customarily cracks
Definitions
- it (an area, place) customarily cracks
Ancestry of “hwdelkʼiiʼ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahtna | d- | The d-classifier, one of four classifiers which obligatorily appear in every Ahtna verb with a variety of purposes. The d-classifier has the following uses |
| 2 | Proto-Athabaskan | də- | the *də- classifier or valence-change prefix, a [[transitivize |
| 3 | Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit | *də- | — |