| 单词 | Na-Dene |
| 释义 | Na-Dene /nah day"nee, nah'day nay"/, n. 1. a group of North American Indian languages, comprising the Athabaskan family, Eyak, Tlingit, and Haida, hypothetically considered to be descendants of a single protolanguage: the genetic relationship of either Tlingit or Haida to Athabaskan and Eyak is now disputed. 2. the hypothesized protolanguage itself. adj. 3. of, belonging to, or pertaining to Na-Dene. Also, Nadene. [1915; name coined by Edward Sapir from assumed reflexes of a single Na-Dene root: Haida na to live, house, Tlingit na people, Athabaskan *-ne in dene, repr. a word in Athabaskan languages for "person, people," e.g., Navajo diné] |
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