Etymology Explorer
› Lower Tanana
Where does “tla” come from?
tla (Lower Tanana) comes from Proto-Athabaskan *tseˑ, from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *caj.
Ancestry of “tla”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Athabaskan
*tseˑ
stone
2
Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
*caj
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Words derived from “tla”
tlaldali
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