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

Compared to Proto-Yeniseian *ceŋʷ.[1]

Noun

*tsiʼ

  1. (inalienable) head

Descendants

  • Proto-Apachean:
  • North Athabaskan
    • Dogrib: ekwì
    • Slavey:
      • North Slavey:
        • Bearlake: ɂekwí
        • Hare: ɂefí
        • Mountain: ɂepí
      • South Slavey: ɂetthí

References

  1. ^ 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
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