-cha'

From Proto-Athabaskan *-k̯eʼ.

• IPA^(key): /tʃʰæʔ/

-cha' (third-person possessed form becha')

1. tail

• bachade'oyi (“dipper, ladle, Big Dipper”)
• becha', becha' xulani (“Big Dipper”)
• -chaget (“river mouth”)
• -chala' (“fish tail”)
• -chalt'wga' (“tailfin of fish”)
• chaɬtsedza (“swallow”)
• -chaniɬtsela' (“tailbone”)
• -chalts'ila' (“lower vertebrae”)
• cha' nudha (“bank swallow”)
• choghozrena (“short-tailed weasel”)
• dechala gezra (“Arctic tern”)
• ɬicha' (“foxtail grass”)
• ts'etsanudha, chanedha (“red-backed vole”)

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 82