Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/čiˑxʸ

Proto-Athabaskan

Alternative forms

  • *tshixʸ (Young and Morgan 1992)
  • *tsiˑg (Kari 2024)

Etymology

From pre-Proto-Athabaskan *čig.

Noun

*čiˑxʸ

  1. ochre

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: tsiis
    • Lower Tanana: tsiyh
    • Tanacross: tseyh
  • Southern Athabaskan:
  • *čigʸ (“to be red ochre”, whence Navajo -CHIIʼ)

References

  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 84
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