Athabascan 'bow'

[Koontz John E]

Courtesy of Jeff Leer, suggested by Giulia Oliverio.

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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:17:40 -0800
From: Jeff Leer <jleer at mosquitonet.com>
To: Koontz John E <John.Koontz at Colorado.EDU>
Subject: RE: (none) (fwd)

Hi John,

We don't have a plausible match in AET. PA reconstructs more or less as
follows, with an extremely irregular onset in the first (prefix) consonant:
*k'[superscript y]i[nasal][long][barred l]-t[schwa][engma][superscript
y][glottal]. The second syllable is the stem, meaning "handle", and the
meaning of the prefix is unknown. In place of the onset *k'[superscript y]
we also find *[glottal stop], *ts', and very rarely also *t[s hachek]'.
Tlingit uses saGs 'yew', and Eyak has Xahd-[barred l], lit. 'pull-INSTR.N'.

Best,
Jeff