Where does “xw-” come from?

xw- (Lower Tanana) comes 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.

xw- (Lower Tanana): Relates to area, place, position, or state

Definitions

  1. Relates to area, place, position, or state

Ancestry of “xw-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-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 “xw-

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *x̣ʊ-