Where does “xuchox” come from?

xuchox (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.

xuchox (Lower Tanana): it (an area, building, house, etc.) is big, large, tall

Definitions

  1. it (an area, building, house, etc.) is big, large, tall

Ancestry of “xuchox”, 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

Words derived from “xuchox

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *x̣ʊ-Every word from Lower Tanana xw-