Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/ʔeˑtɬʼ

Proto-Athabaskan

Alternative reconstructions

  • *’etɬʼ (Young and Morgan 1992)
  • *ʔʷeˑtɬʼ (Kari 2024)

Etymology

From a pre-Proto-Athabaskan *’ʷetɬ’, suffixed form *’ʷətɬ’.

Root

*ʔeˑtɬʼ (suffixed form *ʔʊ̓ɬ-)

  1. plural subjects float, swim

Stem set

Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
ASP ? *ʔeˑtɬʼ ? ?
Progressive *ʔʊ̓ɬ-ɬ — — —

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: ʼaetlʼ
    • Dogrib: -ɂe
    • Lower Tanana: 'atl
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 177
  • Jeff Leer (2010), “The palatal series in Athabascan-Eyak-Tlingit, with an overview of the basic sound correspondences”, in Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska: The Dene-Yeniseian, Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, page 171
  • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 43
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