Where does “kwlą́nenh” come from?

kwlą́nenh (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana xw-, from Proto-Athabaskan *x̣ʊ- — An areal prefix, used in many daughter languages as a subject and object pronoun for areas and locations, and in impersonal constructions such as describing weather.

kwlą́nenh (Lower Tanana): zero people, nobody, no one

Definitions

  1. zero people, nobody, no one

Ancestry of “kwlą́nenh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananaxw-Relates to area, place, position, or state
2Proto-Athabaskan*x̣ʊ-An areal prefix, used in many daughter languages as a subject and object pronoun for areas and locations, and in impersonal constructions such as describing weather
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *x̣ʊ- →Every word from Lower Tanana xw- →