Where does “xwtl'ot” come from?

xwtl'ot (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.

xwtl'ot (Lower Tanana): headwaters of a stream

Definitions

  1. headwaters of a stream

Ancestry of “xwtl'ot”, 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- →