Where does “tr'iyh kayex” come from?

tr'iyh kayex (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana kayex, from Lower Tanana -ka', from Proto-Athabaskan *-qeʔ — foot.

tr'iyh kayex (Lower Tanana): a spring camp

Definitions

  1. a spring camp

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

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

via Lower Tanana kayex

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananakayexvillage
2Lower Tanana-ka'foot
3Proto-Athabaskan*-qeʔfoot

via Lower Tanana tr'iyh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananatr'iyhbirchbark canoe
2Proto-Athabaskan*čʼʷiˑxʸ(birchbark) canoe
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *-qeʔ →Every word from Lower Tanana -ka' →Every word from Lower Tanana kayex →