Where does “ghiɬjet” come from?

ghiɬjet (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana ɬ-, from Proto-Athabaskan *-ɬ — Forms instrumental nouns from verbs.

ghiɬjet (Lower Tanana): it is rotten

Definitions

  1. it is rotten

Ancestry of “ghiɬjet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananaɬ-One of four "classifier" valency prefixes mandatory on all Lower Tanana verbs. The ɬ-classifier has the following uses
2Proto-Athabaskan*-ɬForms instrumental nouns from verbs

Words derived from “ghiɬjet”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *-ɬ →Every word from Lower Tanana ɬ- →
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