Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/taˑtɬʼ

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

  • *tatɬʼ (Young and Morgan 1992)

Etymology

Cognate with Eyak ta’tl’ (“to kick”). On this basis, Vajda reconstructs an ancestral Proto-Na-Dene *tatɬʼ, although there is no attested Tlingit cognate. He further reconstructs Proto-Yeniseian *tejtɬ (“to kick”), which he believes to be related.

Root

*taˑtɬʼ

  1. to kick, move the foot
  2. to burst

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: taatlʼ
    • Carrier: əstał (“to kick”)
    • Lower Tanana: totl
    • Tanacross: eltétl (“it burst”)
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
    • Hupa: ky’ołtuł
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 486
  • 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 332
  • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 366
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