Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/šʷaˑ

This Proto-Athabaskan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Athabaskan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Na-Dene *xʷaj (“sun”), as reconstructed by Vajda (2022), which is then compared to Proto-Yeniseian *xʷaj (“sun”)[1].

Noun

*šʷaˑ

  1. sun

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: saa
    • Babine-Witsuwit'en: sa
    • Beaver: saa
    • Carrier: saa
    • Chipewyan: saaʼ, sa
    • Dogrib: sa
    • Gwich'in: shree (Alaska), sree, srii (Canada)
    • Hän: sra
    • Kaska: sā, są̄
    • Koyukon: so
    • Lower Tanana: sro
    • Northern Tutchone: se
    • Sekani: sáa, sa
    • Slavey:
      • North Slavey: sa
      • South Slavey: sa
    • Southern Carrier: sa
    • Southern Tutchone: sha
    • Tagish: shā
    • Tahltan: sā
    • Tanacross: saa
    • Tsetsaut: fa’
    • Upper Tanana: saa
    • Upper Kuskokwim: sro
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  1. ^ Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “90.) ~*xʷaj”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 369-370
  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 82
  • Chris M. Cannon (2021), Northern Dene Astronomical and Sky-related Knowledge: A Comparative Anthropological Study, Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 327
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