chaaʼ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "chaa"

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *c̆aʼ (“beaver”).[1] Cognate with Hän tsà’, Sarcee tsxa, Chipewyan tsáá, Beaver chááʼ, Carrier tsaa, Sekani tsáʼ, Ahtna tsaʼ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰàːʔ/

Noun

chaaʼ

  1. beaver
  2. tubby, huge, corpulent

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 94
  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 74
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