Proto-Kui-Kuwi : *le-
Meaning : to hang
Kui : ṛepa (ṛet-) "to hang up, suspend"
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) : lecali (let-) "to hang up, deck oneself with flowers"
Kuwi (Schulze) : leh'nai
Kuwi (Mahanti) : rec-
Kuwi (Israel) : lej- (-it-) "to hang (intr.)"
Additional forms : Also Kui ṛaki hung, hooked; ḍēnga (ḍēngi-) to be suspended; Kuwi_F lepi kīali to deck (another) with flowers; lepi aiyali to be hung; Kuwi_Isr leʔ- (-t-) to hang (tr.)
Notes : A complicated case. First of all, ṛ- is not the regular Kui reflex for PK *l- (ḍ- should be expected, and indeed we find it in ḍēnga). However, there is at least one more example of PK *l- > Kui ṛ- (*lapenḍi 'chin' (5181)). It is not excluded that this development regularly happened in Kui before short vowels, since there are almost no counterexamples (most of these have secondarily shortened vowels in Kui). Second, the auslaut of the root is unclear: Kui and some Kuwi forms point to a vocalic auslaut, while Kuwi_Isr intransitive lej- should be traced back to *lej-. However, the transitive-causative form seems to have a stable *-e- auslaut.
Number in DED : 5495
