Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/-denʸ

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

  • *-deˑỹ (De Reuse)
  • *deˑŋʸ (Leer)

Etymology

Vajda connects this root to Proto-Yeniseian *dijn (“emit light, flash”), though there are no cognates within Eyak or Tlingit to serve as comparanda.

Root

*-denʸ

  1. light shines

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
  • Dogrib: xenı̨ı̨dı̨
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
    • Hupa: -din
    • Wailaki: diŋ, diŋʼ (glottalized perfective)
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 139
  • Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[1], volume de-du, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 51
  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 215
  • 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)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 329
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