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.

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

*caj

1. stone

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

• Fortescue, M., Vajda, E. (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”