Where does “K'wy' Tl'o Ts'ena” come from?

K'wy' Tl'o Ts'ena (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana k'wy', from Proto-Athabaskan *qʼa̓yʼ — willow.

K'wy' Tl'o Ts'ena (Lower Tanana): the region around the Koyukuk River

Definitions

  1. the region around the Koyukuk River

Ancestry of “K'wy' Tl'o Ts'ena”, step by step

K'wy' Tl'o Ts'ena traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lower Tanana k'wy'

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananak'wy'willow
2Proto-Athabaskan*qʼa̓yʼwillow

via Lower Tanana tl'ot

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananatl'otrear, posterior of, bottom of, headwaters of a stream
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *qʼa̓yʼ →Every word from Lower Tanana k'wy' →