Where does “tr'oxutlagą́” come from?

tr'oxutlagą́ (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana xw-, from Proto-Athabaskan *x̣ʊ- — An areal prefix, used in many daughter languages as a subject and object pronoun for areas and locations, and in impersonal constructions such as describing weather.

tr'oxutlagą́ (Lower Tanana): it (an area) is bad, no good

Definitions

  1. it (an area) is bad, no good

Ancestry of “tr'oxutlagą́”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananaxw-Relates to area, place, position, or state
2Proto-Athabaskan*x̣ʊ-An areal prefix, used in many daughter languages as a subject and object pronoun for areas and locations, and in impersonal constructions such as describing weather
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *x̣ʊ-Every word from Lower Tanana xw-
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