Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/teˑ

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

Etymology

From Pre-Proto-Athabaskan *te.[1] Cognate with Eyak te, Tlingit tá, all of which are from Proto-Na-Dene *teˑ. Vajda reconstructs a Proto-Yeniseian form *-tej (“to lie”), which he posits is cognate with this root.[2]

Verb

*teˑ

  1. a singular animate noun lies, reclines

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: tae
    • Lower Tanana: ta
  • Southern Athabaskan:
    • Navajo: -TĮ́ (via the extended form *teˑnʸ)[3]
    • Western Apache: -te

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 509
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 509
  • Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[2], volume tE-tu, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 68
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