Where does “ndats'ena” come from?

ndats'ena (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana ts'enh, from Proto-Athabaskan tsʼən — bone.

ndats'ena (Lower Tanana): how many people?

Definitions

  1. how many people?

Ancestry of “ndats'ena”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananats'enhfrom it
2Proto-Athabaskantsʼənbone
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan tsʼənEvery word from Lower Tanana ts'enh