naenʼ ʼstnelkedi

== Ahtna == === Etymology === Literally, “that which with we wipe the face”. By surface analysis, -naenʼ (“face”) + ʼs- (first-person plural subject marker) +‎ n- (gender prefix for round objects?) +‎ l- (classifier) +‎ ket (reversitative imperfective stem of the root kaet (“to wipe”)) +‎ -i (nominalizer). === Noun === naenʼ ʼstnelkedi towel ==== See also ==== ulaʼsdelkedi (“hand towel”) === References === Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 241