Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/-teˑləʔ

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

Young and Morgan claim the Navajo cognate is related to atéél (“front of the body”), from the root -TEEL, from *te̓l (“to be broad”). However, according to Kari, this noun is from the root *teˑ, a classificatory stem for animate nouns, which also refers to breadth.

Regardless, contains the possessed noun suffix *-əʔ.

Noun

*-teˑləʔ

  1. spleen

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: cʼetaeleʼ
    • Lower Tanana: ch'etala'
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
    • Hupa: mite:l’
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 330
  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, pages 497-98
  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 128
  • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 346
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