| 单词 | na-dene |
| 释义 | Na-Dene in British English or Na-Déné (nɑːˈdeɪnɪ, nəˈdiːn) noun a phylum of North American languages including Athapascan, Tlingit, and Haida Word origin from Haida na to dwell + Athapascan dene people; coined by Edward Sapir (1884–1939), American anthropologistNa-Dene in American English (nɑːˈdeini, ˌnɑːdeiˈnei) noun 1. a group of Native American languages, comprising the Athabaskan family, Eyak, Tlingit, and Haida, hypothetically considered to bedescendants of a single protolanguage: the genetic relationship of either Tlingit or Haida to Athabaskan and Eyak is now disputed 2. the hypothesized protolanguage itself adjective Also: Nadene3. of, belonging to, or pertaining to Na-Dene Word origin [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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