Where does “teneɬ” come from?

teneɬ (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana -ten', from Proto-Athabaskan *-təŋʔ — handle.

teneɬ (Lower Tanana): box

Definitions

  1. box

Ancestry of “teneɬ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tanana-ten'handle
2Proto-Athabaskan*-təŋʔhandle

Words derived from “teneɬ”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *-təŋʔ →Every word from Lower Tanana -ten' →
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