Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/tɬʼətsʼ

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

  • *tɬʼə̓tshʼ (Young and Morgan 1992)

Etymology

The root is derived from the noun.

Noun

*tɬʼətsʼ

  1. gallbladder

Root

*tɬʼətsʼ

  1. (with the *də-thematic prefix) to be blue-green, blue, green, grue

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: tlʼetsʼ (“to be blue-green, dark”), -tlʼedzeʼ (“gallblader”), -tlʼetsʼ (“gall, bluish object”)
    • Dogrib: dèhtłʼè (“it is blue”)
    • Lower Tanana: -tl'ets (“gallbladder”), tl'ets (“black-blue”)
    • Tanacross: ch'etl'éts (“gallbladder”, indefinite form), deldlêedz (“it is blue, green”)
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
    • Hupa: whitł’isch’e’ (“gall, bile”, first-person singular)
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 504
  • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 392
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