Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/deˑšʷ

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 dehj (“sandbar”).

Vajda proposes a Proto-Yeniseian cognate *dejxʷ (“lake”).

Noun

*deˑšʷ

  1. river, sandbar

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: daes
    • Carrier: dʉz
    • Chipewyan: des
    • Dogrib: deh
    • Lower Tanana: dasr, das
    • Slavey:
      • South Slavey: deh
  • Southern Athabaskan:

Alternative reconstructions

  • *deˑshʳ (Kari 2024)

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 136
  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 84
  • 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
  • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 114
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