< Reconstruction:Proto-Na-Dene

Reconstruction:Proto-Na-Dene/ɢuǰ

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

Etymology

Has been compared to Proto-Yeniseian *ɢujči (“wolf”).

Noun

*ɢuǰ[1]

  1. wolf

Descendants
  • Eyak: ɢuˑǰih
  • Tlingit: g̱ooch
  • → Haida: g̱úuj

References
  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)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 373: “*ɢu()ǰ()”
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