Proto-Kui-Kuwi : *ḍev-
Meaning : to run, jump
Kui : dega (degi-) "to run, jump, leap; n. running, jumping, jump, leap"
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) : devali "to bound, jump"
Kuwi (Schulze) : ḍēwinai "to leap"
Sunkarametta Kuwi : ḍev- (-it-) "to jump"
Kuwi (Israel) : ḍēv-/ḍēm- (-it-) "to jump"
Additional forms : ?Also Kui detka (detki-) to jump; n. a jump
Notes : In Kui -g- < PK *-v- (regular development). However, the absence of retroflex articulation is somewhat strange (misspelling? dissimilation?) The vowel is short; in Kuwi dialects it probably became elongated because of the impossibility of geminated -vv-. Kui detka, which B & E put here, should go back to *deta or *deda; the two roots cannot be related (if only we do not suggest a specific development *-vk- > -tk-?)
Number in DED : 2971
