Where does “tth'iya ch'o'i” come from?

tth'iya ch'o'i (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana ch'o'i, from Lower Tanana -i, from Lower Tanana yo, from Proto-Athabaskan *yaˑ — sky.

tth'iya ch'o'i (Lower Tanana): mosquito repellant

Definitions

  1. mosquito repellant

Ancestry of “tth'iya ch'o'i”, step by step

tth'iya ch'o'i traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lower Tanana ch'o'i

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananach'o'iprevention, preventative, thwarting
2Lower Tanana-iA nominal suffix for non-human nouns with the meaning of 'the one who...,' 'with it [verb] is done.' Used to derive nouns from verbs, adverbs, and other nouns
3Lower Tananayosky
4Proto-Athabaskan*yaˑsky

via Lower Tanana tth'iya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananatth'iyamosquito
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *yaˑ →Every word from Lower Tanana -i →Every word from Lower Tanana yo →