Where does “-tʼé” come from?

-tʼé (Navajo) comes from Proto-Athabaskan tʼe — roast, cook; to be thus.

-tʼé (Navajo): to roast, cook, fry, broil

Definitions

  1. to roast, cook, fry, broil

Ancestry of “-tʼé”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Athabaskantʼeroast, cook; to be thus
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan tʼe