Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/tʼɑɢ

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

  • *tʼaɢ (Young and Morgan 1992)

Etymology

According to Vajda, the earliest form of the root started with *d. He therefore reconstructs a Proto-Na-Dene form *dawɢ (although there are no Eyak or Tlingit cognates to serve as comparanda), which is purported to be cognate with Proto-Yeniseian *dawɢ (“to fly”).

Root

*tʼɑɢ

  1. to fly

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: tʼak
    • Dogrib: niìtʼa
    • Gwich'in: naałtʼak
    • Lower Tanana: t'wx
    • Tanacross: t'ak
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 522
  • 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 327
  • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 382
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