Where does “sanh tsuya'” come from?

sanh tsuya' (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana sanh, from Proto-Athabaskan *šeˑn(ə) — summer.

sanh tsuya' (Lower Tanana): passerine birds

Definitions

  1. passerine birds

Ancestry of “sanh tsuya'”, step by step

sanh tsuya' traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lower Tanana sanh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananasanhsummer
2Proto-Athabaskan*šeˑn(ə)summer

via Lower Tanana tsuya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananatsuyabird
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *šeˑn(ə) →Every word from Lower Tanana sanh →