Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/dəweˑ

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

Possibly onomatopoeic. Alternatively, constructed of two different elements/roots, *də and *weˑ, with the first being a compound element found also in *dəneˑ[1] and the second related to the root for gray.[2]

Compare Tlingit tawéi (“bighorn sheep”).

Noun

*dəweˑ

  1. sheep

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: debae
    • Carrier: də́be
    • Lower Tanana: deba
    • Tanacross: demee
    • Tsuut'ina: doma?
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  1. ^ Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 116
  2. ^ Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 102
  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 128
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