kaetsʼ

Ahtna

Etymology

Cognate with Navajo -KĘ́Ę́Z, from Proto-Athabaskan *q(w)eːtsʼ (“stick-like or heavy object falls”).[1]

Root

kaetsʼ

  1. an enclosed object falls or moves independently

Stem set

Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
Momentaneous kaes kaetsʼ kos kaes
Distributive kaes kaetsʼ kaes kaes
Progressive kos — — —
Perambulative kos kaetsʼ kos kaes

References

  • Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 241
  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 184
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