Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/saˑxʸ

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 from a spirantization of pre-Proto-Athabaskan *saːg. Cognate with Tlingit xágw. Compared to Proto-Yeniseian *çaç (“river, rivulet”) and Ket сесь (sʲēˑsʲ, “river”) by Fortescue-Vajda (2022).[1]

Noun

*saˑxʸ[2]

  1. sand

Alternative reconstructions

  • *saˑx̯ (Krauss 1987)
  • *saːxy (Leer 2010)

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: saas
    • Chipewyan: thai
    • Lower Tanana: thoyh
    • Tanacross: thaayh (“sand”)
  • Southern Athabaskan:
    • Navajo: séí (“sand”)
      • Navajo: -ZÉÍ (“crumble”)

References

  1. ^ 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 356
  2. ^ Jeff Leer (2010), “The palatal series in Athabascan-Eyak-Tlingit, with an overview of the basic sound correspondences”, in Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska: The Dene-Yeniseian, Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, page 175
  • Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[2], volume s/za-s/zE, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 11
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