Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/taˑqʼə

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

  • *taˑqʼ=əy (Leer 1996)

Numeral

*taˑqʼə

  1. three

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: taakʼi, taaʼi, taagga
    • Dogrib: tai
    • Lower Tanana: tok'i, togi
    • Tanacross: taag
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
  • Southern Athabaskan:

Usage notes

  • Leer suggests a possible human form *taˑ(x̣)neˑ(?), preserved in e.g. Ahtna taane.

References

  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 128
  • Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[1], volume ta, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 43
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