Reconstruction:Proto-Na-Dene/caj

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

*caj[1]

  1. stone

Descendants[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Fortescue, Michael D., Vajda, Edward J. (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: “*caj”
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