Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/tsʼən

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

Cognate with Tlingit sʼaaḵ (/⁠sʼaːqʰ⁠/, “bone”). Compared to Proto-Yeniseian *qawg (“bone, horn”)[1], via Proto-Na-Dene *cawnɢ (“bone”).

Noun

*tsʼən

  1. bone(s)

Descendants

  • Northern Athabaskan:
    • Ahtna: tsʼen
    • Lower Tanana: tth'enh
    • Tanacross: tth'enh
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
    • Hupa: whitsʼinʼ (1st person singular)
  • Southern Athabaskan:

References

  1. ^ Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “62.) ~*cawnɢ (or *qawŋʷɢ)”, in 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 355
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