Where does “ndaxwts'enh” come from?

ndaxwts'enh (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.

ndaxwts'enh (Lower Tanana): why?, how come?, what for?

Definitions

  1. why?, how come?, what for?

Ancestry of “ndaxwts'enh”, 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-