chenh
See also: chênh
Lower Tanana
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *kʸən, *kən. Compare Ahtna cen, -ceneʼ (“base”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃʰən̥/
Noun
chenh
Derived terms
- -'othchek'at (“hip”)
- benche'ayi (“axe”)
- ch'e'ethchena' (“standing tree with limbs”)
- ch'echena' (“stem, stump”)
- ch'echenh nich'elyayh (“potlach”)
- chenet (“slough”)
- chenh tu' (“swamp water”)
- chenhkw ch'eniɬtodhi (“bog cranberry”)
- dechenh (“stick, wood”)
- Deghiloyi Chena' (“foothills of the Alaska Range”)
- -dhuchena' (“branch, knot”)
- -dochena' (“wall”)
- dotson' ch'echene' (“broomrape”)
- -ghwthchena' (“hindquarter”)
- kachenh (“boots”)
- -lochena' (“wrist”)
- thedo chenh (“flat with timber around the edge”)
- xwtl chenh (“sled runners”)
References
- Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 84-85