-kʼos

Ahtna

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-qʼʊs. Cognate with Navajo akʼos.

Noun

-kʼos

  1. neck

Inflection

Possessives of -kʼos
singular plural
1st person skʼos nekʼos
2nd person nkʼos unhkʼos
3rd person ukʼos, ikʼos hwkʼos, kukʼos
Reflexive dekʼos hdekʼos
Indefinite cʼekʼos
Reciprocal niłkʼos

Derived terms

  • ukʼos cʼetsʼedi (“young male caribou”)

References

  • Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 259
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