Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/-deʼ

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

Cognate with Eyak -dAlah (“antler”).

Has been compared to Proto-Yeniseian *dej (“antler”).

Noun

*-deʼ

  1. horn, antler

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: -deʼ
    • Dogrib: edè
    • Lower Tanana: -da'
    • Tanacross: ch'edé'
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
  • Southern Athabaskan:
    • Jicarilla: miidee (third-person singular)
    • Navajo: adeeʼ

References

  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 129
  • 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 329
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