Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/šʷaˑ

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

Inherited from Proto-Na-Dene *xʷaj (“sun”), as reconstructed by Vajda (2022), which is then compared to Proto-Yeniseian *xʷaj (“sun”)[1].

Noun

*šʷaˑ

  1. sun

Descendants

  • Ahtna: saa
  • Beaver: saa
  • Carrier: saa
  • Chipewyan: saaʼ
  • Navajo: shá
  • Sekani: sáa

References

  1. ^ Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “90.) ~*xʷaj”, 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, pages 369-370
  • Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 82
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