Where does “Menhti xwt'ana” come from?

Menhti xwt'ana (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana Menhti, from Lower Tanana benh, from Lower Tanana ben, from Proto-Athabaskan *wən — lake.

Menhti xwt'ana (Lower Tanana): the Minto people

Definitions

  1. the Minto people

Ancestry of “Menhti xwt'ana”, step by step

Menhti xwt'ana traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lower Tanana Menhti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower TananaMenhtiMinto Flats, a swampland in Alaska
2Lower Tananabenhlake
3Lower Tananabenthe water level moves
4Proto-Athabaskan*wənlake

via Lower Tanana xwt'ana

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananaxwt'anathe people of or living in a place
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *wən →Every word from Lower Tanana ben →Every word from Lower Tanana benh →