Proto-Kui-Kuwi : *uṇ- (caus. *ūṭ-)
Meaning : to drink
Kui : uṇba (uṭ-) "to drink, partake of food, smoke tobacco"
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) : ūndali
Kuwi (Schulze) : unnai "to drink, suck"
Sunkarametta Kuwi : un-
Kuwi (Israel) : uṇ-
Additional forms : Also Kui ūṛpa (ūṛt-) to cause to drink, give to drink, suckle; ūṭpa (ūṭṭ-) idem; Kuwi_F pālū ūndali to suck; pālū ūthali to suckle; Kuwi_Su ūṭ- (-h-) to give to drink; Kuwi_Isr ūṭ- to give to drink
Notes : In Kuwi_F the form is irregular (*urhali would be expected); as it is, it can only be traced back to *unḍ- with an irregular -ḍ- developed after the original nasal. This can be attributed to the process of "reforming" the original simple stem by "hypercorrection": that is, the causative ūthali < *ūṇ-pali could be reinterpreted as from *ūnd-pali (which is, in fact, a far more frequent situation). One cannot also exclude an analogy with onda 'boiled rice', which, although on the PK level it is a different root, probably is of the same origin.
Number in DED : 600
