Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/dlʊqʼ

• *dlʉ̓Kʼ(Young and Morgan 1992; orthographic difference except for glottalization)

From a pre-Proto-Athabaskan *də-ləqʷ.

*dlʊqʼ

1. laugh

• Northern Athabaskan:
  • Ahtna: dlokʼ (cf. also dloʼ, dlok (“laughter”))
  • Carrier: dlo
  • Chipewyan: dloɣ
  • Dogrib: nàɂedlò (“to laugh”) (cf. also wedlòo (“laughter”))
  • Lower Tanana: dlwk
• Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
  • Wailaki: loʼ
• Southern Athabaskan:
  • Navajo: -DLOʼ (cf. also dloh (“laughter”))

• Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 177
• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 161