Where does “doxwt'anh” come from?

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

doxwt'anh (Lower Tanana): how is it doing? (of an area or location)

Definitions

  1. how is it doing? (of an area or location)

Ancestry of “doxwt'anh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower 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
2Proto-Athabaskandə-the *də- classifier or valence-change prefix, a [[transitivize
3Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit*də-
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də-Every word from Lower Tanana de-Every word from Proto-Athabaskan də-