ggaaggi

Compare Navajo gáagii, Western Apache gaagé, and Ahtna ggaak (“call of a raven”). Contains the nominalizer -i. Note the similar formation of Navajo tsídii (“bird”).

ggaaggi (Central, Lower, Western)

1. bird

• dzeł ggaaggaʼ (“horned lark”)
• ggaaggi ggaay (“passerine”)
• xeł ggaaggaʼ (“little brown bat”)

• ketsʼalggaeggi (“flying squirrel”)
• tsʼeggaagga (“bird”) (Mentasta)

• Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 190