Where does “ton” come from?

ton (Lower Tanana) comes from Proto-Athabaskan tan — A classificatory root for elongated objects, containers, and their contents.

ton (Lower Tanana): A classificatory root for elongated objects and enclosed containers, with a wide variety of extended meanings

Definitions

  1. A classificatory root for elongated objects and enclosed containers, with a wide variety of extended meanings

Ancestry of “ton”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-AthabaskantanA classificatory root for elongated objects, containers, and their contents

Words derived from “ton”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan tan →