Where does “y-” come from?

y- (Lower Tanana) comes from Proto-Athabaskan *yə-.

y- (Lower Tanana): Marks a third-person singular object of a postposition

Definitions

  1. Marks a third-person singular object of a postposition

Ancestry of “y-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Athabaskan*yə-—

Words derived from “y-”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *yə- →