Where does “tr'iyh chwx” come from?

tr'iyh chwx (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana chwx, from Lower Tanana chox, from Proto-Athabaskan *kʸaɣ — to be big, large.

tr'iyh chwx (Lower Tanana): steamboat

Definitions

  1. steamboat

Ancestry of “tr'iyh chwx”, step by step

tr'iyh chwx traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lower Tanana chwx

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananachwxbig, large
2Lower Tananachoxto be large
3Proto-Athabaskan*kʸaɣto be big, large

via Lower Tanana tr'iyh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananatr'iyhbirchbark canoe
2Proto-Athabaskan*čʼʷiˑxʸ(birchbark) canoe
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *kʸaɣ →Every word from Lower Tanana chox →Every word from Lower Tanana chwx →
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