Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/sə̓w̃ʼ

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

Noun

*sə̓w̃ʼ

  1. star

Alternative reconstructions

  • *tsə̓w̃ʼ (Kraus 1979)
  • *sɨʸn (Young and Morgan 1992)[1]
  • *sə̓mʼ (Alderete 2005)
  • *səmʼ (Cannon 2021)
  • *səŋʷʔ (Kari 2024)

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: sonʼ
    • Babine-Witsuwit'en: sen, s̱im
    • Beaver: san
    • Gwich'in: sąʼ (Alaska), sòʼ (Old Crow), sànʼ (Northwest Territories)
    • Hän: sä̀n
    • Carrier: sʊm
    • Chipewyan: tthë́n
    • Deg Xinag: tthenʼ
    • Dena'ina: sem, sen, sim, sin
    • Dogrib: whǫ̀, Wǫ̀ʼ
    • Holikachuk: tthoonʼ
    • Kaska: sónʼ
    • Koyukon: tlenʼ (Upper), tloonʼ (Central, Lower)
    • Lower Tanana: sen'
    • Northern Tutchone: sánʼ (Mayo), thyánʼ, thélnʼ (Selkirk)
    • Sekani: sùn
    • Slavey:
      • North Slavey: fę́’, wę́, whę́
      • South Slavey: thę́
    • Southern Tutchone: thę̀l
    • Southern Carrier: s̱um
    • Tagish: sòn’
    • Tahltan: s̱onʼ
    • Tanacross: sénʼ
    • Tsuut'ina: sʊ́n, sú
    • Upper Kuskokwim: swnʼ, srwnʼ
    • Upper Tanana: sanʼ, sänʼ, sonʼ
  • Pacific Coast Athabskan:
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 102
  • Chris M. Cannon (2021), Northern Dene Astronomical and Sky-related Knowledge: A Comparative Anthropological Study, Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 238
  1. ^ Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 467
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