Where does “dak'wni” come from?

dak'wni (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana d-, from Lower Tanana de-, from Proto-Athabaskan də-, from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də-.

dak'wni (Lower Tanana): tobacco

Definitions

  1. tobacco

Ancestry of “dak'wni”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananad-A "qualifier" prefix with a variety of meanings
2Lower Tananade-The de-classifier, one of four classifiers which obligatorily appear in every Lower Tanana verb with a variety of purposes. The de-classifier has the following uses
3Proto-Athabaskandə-the *də- classifier or valence-change prefix, a [[transitivize
4Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit*də-—

Words derived from “dak'wni”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də- →Every word from Lower Tanana de- →Every word from Lower Tanana d- →