Where does “ka-” come from?

ka- (Ahtna) comes from Ahtna ko-, from Proto-Athabaskan *x̣ʊ- — An areal prefix, used in many daughter languages as a subject and object pronoun for areas and locations, and in impersonal constructions such as describing weather.

ka- (Ahtna): up, up and out, up a slope, ascending

Definitions

  1. up, up and out, up a slope, ascending

Ancestry of “ka-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ahtnako-marks an area as the subject of a verb
2Proto-Athabaskan*x̣ʊ-An areal prefix, used in many daughter languages as a subject and object pronoun for areas and locations, and in impersonal constructions such as describing weather

Words derived from “ka-”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *x̣ʊ- →Every word from Ahtna ko- →