Where does “yok'wth” come from?

yok'wth (Lower Tanana) comes from Lower Tanana yo, from Proto-Athabaskan *yaˑ — sky.

yok'wth (Lower Tanana): cloud

Definitions

  1. cloud

Ancestry of “yok'wth”, step by step

yok'wth traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lower Tanana yo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananayosky
2Proto-Athabaskan*yaˑsky

via Lower Tanana k'wth

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Tananak'wthcloud
2Proto-Athabaskan*qʼʊscloud
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *yaˑ →Every word from Lower Tanana yo →