Where does “kohtʼaene” come from?
kohtʼaene (Ahtna) comes from Ahtna hwtʼaene, from Ahtna tʼaen, from Ahtna d-, from Proto-Athabaskan də-, from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də-.
kohtʼaene (Ahtna): person, human, people
Definitions
- person, human, people
Ancestry of “kohtʼaene”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahtna | hwtʼaene | people of a place, those who possess an area |
| 2 | Ahtna | tʼaen | to have, possess |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Proto-Athabaskan | də- | the *də- classifier or valence-change prefix, a [[transitivize |
| 5 | Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit | *də- | — |