Where does “de-” come from?

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

de- (Lower Tanana): 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

Definitions

  1. 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

Ancestry of “de-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Athabaskandə-the *də- classifier or valence-change prefix, a [[transitivize
2Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit*də-—

Words derived from “de-”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də- →