Where does “-d-” come from?

-d- (Navajo) comes from Proto-Athabaskan də-, from Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit *də-.

-d- (Navajo): The -d- classifier or valence-change prefix, a...

Definitions

  1. The -d- classifier or valence-change prefix, a...

Ancestry of “-d-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Athabaskandə-the *də- classifier or valence-change prefix, a [[transitivize
2Proto-Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit*də-
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