Where does “sdeʼ tʼaeni” come from?

sdeʼ tʼaeni (Ahtna) comes from Ahtna tʼaen, from Ahtna d-, from Proto-Athabaskan də-, from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də-.

sdeʼ tʼaeni (Ahtna): arctic grayling

Definitions

  1. arctic grayling

Ancestry of “sdeʼ tʼaeni”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ahtnatʼaento have, possess
2Ahtnad-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
3Proto-Athabaskandə-the *də- classifier or valence-change prefix, a [[transitivize
4Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit*də-—
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də- →Every word from Ahtna d- →Every word from Ahtna tʼaen →