Where does “-ghona'” come from?

-ghona' (Lower Tanana) comes from Proto-Athabaskan *ɣaˑn — to kill plural objects.

-ghona' (Lower Tanana): hump, back of a moose or caribou

Definitions

  1. hump, back of a moose or caribou

Ancestry of “-ghona'”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Athabaskan*ɣaˑnto kill plural objects
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *ɣaˑn