East Central Khoisan etymology :

Proto-East Khoe : *úì

Meaning : evening

Khoe etymology : Khoe etymology

|Xaise : ʔúì

Cara : ʔúí

Tsixa : ʔúì

Danisi : ʔúì

Hietshware : hwi |ka; wi-ka "afternoon"

References : Dornan 98, 112; Vossen 413.

Central Khoisan etymology :

Proto-Khoe : *!ʔúì

Meaning : evening

Khoisan etymology : Khoisan etymology

Khoekhoe : *!ʔui

West Khoe : *!ʔúì

East Khoe : *úì

References : Vossen 413.

Khoekhoe etymology :

Proto-Khoekhoe : *!ʔui

Meaning : evening

Khoe etymology : Khoe etymology

Nama : !ui-b "afternoon", !ui "to become afternoon/evening"

!Ora : !ʔui-b; !uyb (Wu.)

References : Haacke 95; Meinhof 120; Rust 372; Wuras 21.

West Central Khoisan etymology :

Proto-West Khoe : *!ʔúì

Meaning : evening

Khoe etymology : Khoe etymology

//Ani : ʔúì-

Kxoe (Hukwe) : ʔúì (Kö.)

Buga : ʔúì

|Ganda : ʔúì

Notes : Irregular loss of click in ||Ani.

References : Barnard 123-4; Tanaka 33; Vossen 413.

Macro-Khoisan etymology :

Proto-Khoisan : *!ʔui

Meaning : evening

Proto-Bushman : *!ʔui

Proto-Khoe : *!ʔúì

Notes : The root is rather widely spread in Peripheral Khoisan, but borrowing from Khoe cannot be fully excluded (since time-denoting lexicon is fairly often borrowed in those languages from neighbouring sources).

Peripheral Khoisan etymology :

Number : 934

Proto-Bushman : *!ʔui

Meaning : evening

Khoisan etymology : Khoisan etymology

Proto-Ju : *!ʼui-a

Bushman > Ju : Bushman > Ju

Proto-!Wi : *!ʔui

Bushman > !Wi : Bushman > !Wi

Notes : Probably different from *!^goa id., although the roots are almost in complementary distribution (except for Zhuǀ'hoan).

North Khoisan etymology :

Proto-Ju: *!ʼui-a

Tonal pattern: HH [j]

Meaning: evening, afternoon

Peripheral Khoisan etymology: Peripheral Khoisan etymology

Juǀʼhoan : !ʼúí-á "late afternoon, early evening"

Nogau : a ka uy

!Kung (Lloyd) : !wĭ "afternoon, evening"

!Kung (Wilhelm): !ʼúiˤ

!O!Kung (Snyman): !ʼùi

References : Bleek 7, 467, 493; Dickens 325; Snyman 1980: 31.

RefLex number: 2543

South Khoisan (!Wi subgroup) etymology :

Proto-!Wi : *!ʔui

Meaning : evening; to set (of sun)

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : !kúi,̈ !ū́ï (B.); !kúï, !kū́ï (Ll.)

//Ng : !kwi-ŋki

//Kxau : !ʔui

|Auni : ǂūi

|Nusan : !ui

Notes : Palatal ǂ- in |Auni probably by mistake.

References : Bleek 449, 467, 493, 676.

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