Where does “ɬ-” come from?

ɬ- (Lower Tanana) comes from Proto-Athabaskan *-ɬ — Forms instrumental nouns from verbs.

ɬ- (Lower Tanana): One of four "classifier" valency prefixes mandatory on all Lower Tanana verbs. The ɬ-classifier has the following uses

Definitions

  1. One of four "classifier" valency prefixes mandatory on all Lower Tanana verbs. The ɬ-classifier has the following uses

Ancestry of “ɬ-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Athabaskan*-ɬForms instrumental nouns from verbs

Words derived from “ɬ-”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *-ɬ →