Where does “sro ch'enghon'” come from?

sro ch'enghon' (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana ch'enghon', from Lower Tanana n-, from Proto-Athabaskan *n-.

sro ch'enghon' (Lower Tanana): half moon

Definitions

  1. half moon

Ancestry of “sro ch'enghon'”, step by step

sro ch'enghon' traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lower Tanana ch'enghon'

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananach'enghon'half of a round object
2Lower Tananan-Marks the perfective mode
3Proto-Athabaskan*n-

via Lower Tanana sro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananasrosun
2Proto-Athabaskan*šʷaˑsun
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *n-Every word from Lower Tanana n-Every word from Lower Tanana ch'enghon'
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