Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/ɬəŋʸ

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

Alternative reconstructions

  • *ɬəỹ- (Krauss 1979)

Etymology

Has been compared with Ket тип (“dog”).[1]

Noun

*ɬəŋʸ

  1. dog

Derived terms

  • *ɬįˑ-kʼʸeˑ ~ *ɬəŋʸ-kʼʸeˑ

Descendants

From *ɬəŋʸ:

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Carrier: łi
    • Chipewyan: łį̀
    • Dogrib: tłı̨
    • Hän: łąyy
    • Sekani: tłį
    • Slavey:*** South Slavey: tlį
    • Tanacross: łii
    • Upper Tanana: łįˑ
  • Southern Athabaskan:

From the derivative *ɬįˑ-kʼʸeˑ/*ɬəŋʸ-kʼʸeˑ:

References

  • Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[2], volume *ɬa-ɬə, Alaska Native Language Archive, pages 32-33
  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 128
  1. ^ Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), 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, page 314
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