Reconstruction:Proto-Na-Dene/caj

This Proto-Na-Dene 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-Na-Dene

Alternative reconstructions

  • *kyay (Leer 2010)

Etymology

Has been compared to Proto-Yeniseian *cewç (“stone”).

Noun

*caj

  1. stone

Descendants

  • Eyak: tsaˑ
  • Proto-Athabaskan: *tseˑ (see there for further descendants)
  • Tlingit: shaa (“mountain”)

References

  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) 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 353
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