Where does “nuniya tlaga'” come from?

nuniya tlaga' (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana tlaga' — shabby, scruffy, decrepit, deteriorated, tattered, old, useless.

nuniya tlaga' (Lower Tanana): brown bear

Definitions

  1. brown bear

Ancestry of “nuniya tlaga'”, step by step

nuniya tlaga' traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lower Tanana tlaga'

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananatlaga'shabby, scruffy, decrepit, deteriorated, tattered, old, useless

via Lower Tanana nuniya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tanananuniyaanimal, creature, animals
Every word from Lower Tanana tlaga'