Proto-Inupik: *cavǝt-, *captǝ-(ɣ-)
Meaning: to touch 1, to grope, to feel way 2
Russian meaning: трогать, касаться 1, идти наощупь 2
Seward Peninsula Inupik: sawit- 'to palpate, to adjust, to work', saptik-, saptāq- 2
SPI Dialects: Imaq sáwɨtāɣa 'to palpate, to touch', sáwɨtātoq 'to work', sáwɨɫɨq 'work'
North Alaskan Inupik: savɨt- 1, saptaq- 2
Western Canadian Inupik: savit- 1, 'to work on sth. guided by touch', saptik- 2
Eastern Canadian Inupik: tatsi(C)- 'to touch with eyes closed or in the dark to find'
ECI Dialects: Lab tapsik- 'to feel, to finger, to touch' [Peck]
Greenlandic Inupik: savit- 1, satsiɣ- 2
GRI Dialects: NG hattaɣ- 2
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 72
