yaan

See also: yaanʼ, Ya-an, Ya'an, yâan, and -yaan

Ahtna

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *hanʸ (“to eat”). Cognate with Navajo -YĄ́Ą́ʼ, Lower Tanana yon.

Root

yaan

1. to eat

Stem set

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Durative	yaan	yaanʼ	yiił	yaanʼ
Durative d-effect	daan	daanʼ	diił	daanʼ
Durative-customary	yiix	yiix	yiix	yiix
Momentaneous	yiis	yaan, yaanʼ	yiił	?
Momentaneous	yen	yen	?	?
Customary	yiis	yiis	yiis	yiis

Derived terms

• c'ezyen (“he/she has an appetite”)
• cʼaan (“flour, bread”)
• cʼeyaan (“he/she is eating something”)
• cʼeyiix (“he/she customarily eats something”)
• daan (“it is being eaten”)
• -daaneʼ (“animal's food”)
• deyaan
• icʼełyaan (“he is feeding something to him”)
• koyaan
• nyaan
• ukʼeʼscʼeyaani (“table”)

References

• Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 429

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja.ˈan/, [ja.ˈan]

Pronoun

yaan

1. (interrogative) when

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Cognate with Zoogocho Zapotec yan, Choapan Zapotec yan.

Noun

yaan

1. corncob

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012), Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 20

Tlingit

Noun

yaan

1. hunger

References

• X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell. Tlingit Dictionary. 2021. p. 171.