Where does “tatlʼhwtʼaene” come from?

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

tatlʼhwtʼaene (Ahtna): the upper Ahtna people, people of the upper Copper River

Definitions

  1. the upper Ahtna people, people of the upper Copper River

Ancestry of “tatlʼhwtʼaene”, step by step

tatlʼhwtʼaene traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ahtna hwtʼaene

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ahtnahwtʼaenepeople of a place, those who possess an area
2Ahtnatʼaento have, possess
3Ahtnad-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
4Proto-Athabaskandə-the *də- classifier or valence-change prefix, a [[transitivize
5Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit*də-—

via Ahtna tatlʼaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ahtnatatlʼaaheadwaters of a river
2Ahtna-tlʼaabottom of, posterior of, rear of
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də- →Every word from Ahtna d- →Every word from Ahtna tʼaen →