Where does “yeɬttheyh” come from?

yeɬttheyh (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana ɬ-, from Proto-Athabaskan *-ɬ — Forms instrumental nouns from verbs.

yeɬttheyh (Lower Tanana): he/she is fleshing, scraping meat off of it

Definitions

  1. he/she is fleshing, scraping meat off of it

Ancestry of “yeɬttheyh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananaɬ-One of four "classifier" valency prefixes mandatory on all Lower Tanana verbs. The ɬ-classifier has the following uses
2Proto-Athabaskan*-ɬForms instrumental nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *-ɬ →Every word from Lower Tanana ɬ- →
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