Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/-ɢa̓ˑnəʼ

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

From Proto-Na-Dene. Cognate with Eyak -ɢəla’ and Tlingit jín (“hand”).

Compared to Proto-Yeniseian *ɢejn[1].

Noun

*-ɢa̓ˑnəʼ

  1. (inalienable) arm

Descendants

  • Ahtna: -ggaane’
  • Dena'ina: -ɢuna
  • Beaver: -góné’
  • Chilcotin: -gán
  • Chipewyan: -gané
  • Chiricahua: -gan
  • Dogrib: -gǫ̀
  • Galice: gaaneʔ
  • Hän: -gæ̀nn’
  • Hupa: -ɢan-
  • Jicarilla: -gan
  • Lipan: -gąą’
  • Lower Tanana: -gonaʔ
  • Plains Apache: -gąą
  • Mattole: -gaane’
  • Navajo: agaan
  • North Slavey: -góné’
  • Slavey: -gǫ́’
  • Sekani: -gòne’
  • Tsuut'ina: -gànὰ’
  • Western Apache: -gan

Usage notes

  • This noun apparently exhibited inalienable possession, as it does in most daughter languages.
  • This page follows the Krauss 1979 reconstruction, and includes the possessed noun suffix *-əʼ. Leer (2005) instead reconstructs this suffix as *-eˑʼ, which would suggest a form *-ɢa̓ˑneˑʼ

References

  1. ^ Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “95.) ~*ɢejn”, 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 372
  • Sharon Hargus, Keren Rice (2005) Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 95
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