Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/tsiʼ

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 Proto-Na-Dene. Cognate with Tlingit -shá.[1] Compared to Proto-Yeniseian *ceŋʷ.[2]

Noun

*tsiʼ

  1. (inalienable) head

Alternative reconstructions

  • *tthiˑ (Kari 2024)

Descendants

  • Proto-Apachean:
  • North Athabaskan
    • Ahtna: -tseʼ
    • Dogrib: ekwì
    • Lower Tanana: -tthi', -tli'
    • Slavey:
      • North Slavey:
        • Bearlake: ɂekwí
        • Hare: ɂefí
        • Mountain: ɂepí
      • South Slavey: ɂetthí
    • Tanacross: shtthí' (first-person singular)
  • Pacific Coast Athabaskan:
    • Hupa: whitse’ (first-person singular)
    • Wailaki: -siʼ

References

  1. ^ * Jeff Leer (2010), “The palatal series in Athabascan-Eyak-Tlingit, with an overview of the basic sound correspondences”, in Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska: The Dene-Yeniseian, Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, page 179
  2. ^ Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “60.) ~*cejŋʷ”, 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 354

Further reading

  • Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[2], volume tse-tsu, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 47
  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 94
  • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 448
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