Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/tan

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

  • *taˑn (Kari 2024)

Etymology

Cognate with Eyak ta (“a rigid object is situated”) and Tlingit tan (“a wooden or bone object is situated”). Derived from Proto-Na-Dene *tan, and according to Vajda cognate with a Proto-Yeniseian form *ta ~ tan (“a tree/pole stands rigid”).

Root

*tan

  1. A classificatory root for elongated objects, containers, and their contents.

Stem set

Young and Morgan also reconstructed a reduced stem *tən.

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: taan
    • Koyukon: ton
    • Lower Tanana: ton
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
    • Hupa: sita꞉n
    • Wailaki: taŋ
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 473
  • 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 359
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