Where does “denyit” come from?

denyit (Lower Tanana) comes from Middle English yit, from Lower Tanana -t, from Proto-Athabaskan *-tʼ.

denyit (Lower Tanana): canyon

Definitions

  1. canyon

Ancestry of “denyit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishyityet
2Lower Tanana-tA suffix marking the transitional aspect (marking change of state) that appears in a few verbs, mostly paired with the prefix
3Proto-Athabaskan*-tʼ—
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *-tʼ →Every word from Lower Tanana -t →Every word from Middle English yit →