Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/təŋʸ-eˑ

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

Alternative reconstructions

  • *təỹə (Krauss 1979)

Etymology

-eˑ is a variant of the possessed noun prefix *-əʔ, which appears without the glottal stop in this and several other locative words.

Cognate with Eyak taˑ 'trail.' Vajda proposes a cognate Proto-Yeniseian form *tajn.

Noun

*təŋʸ-eˑ

  1. trail

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: tene
    • Dogrib: etǫ
    • Lower Tanana: tena
    • Tanacross: tęy
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 90
  • 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 330
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