Where does “sro ch'o'i” come from?

sro ch'o'i (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana ch'o'i, from Lower Tanana -i, from Lower Tanana yo, from Proto-Athabaskan *yaˑ — sky.

sro ch'o'i (Lower Tanana): sunglasses

Definitions

  1. sunglasses

Ancestry of “sro ch'o'i”, step by step

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

via Lower Tanana ch'o'i

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananach'o'iprevention, preventative, thwarting
2Lower Tanana-iA nominal suffix for non-human nouns with the meaning of 'the one who...,' 'with it [verb] is done.' Used to derive nouns from verbs, adverbs, and other nouns
3Lower Tananayosky
4Proto-Athabaskan*yaˑsky

via Lower Tanana sro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananasrosun
2Proto-Athabaskan*šʷaˑsun
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *yaˑ →Every word from Lower Tanana -i →Every word from Lower Tanana yo →