South Khoisan (!Wi subgroup) etymology : Query result

Proto-!Wi : *|a

Stems : *|a-ten

Meaning : to wait

|Xam : |kā́; |kắttǝn|kắttǝn (Ll.)

References : Bleek 293, 302.

Proto-!Wi : *|a

Stems : *|a-lV

Meaning : green, blue, yellow

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : |kāīn, |kāīnya (B.); |kāīn (Ll.)

//Ng : -|kḁla "yellow"; |karowa "green"

References : Bleek 297, 299, 302.

Proto-!Wi : *|a

Stems : *|a-xa

Meaning : bull

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : |kạ̄́xa (Ll.)

References : Bleek 305.

Proto-!Wi : *|a

Meaning : mantis

References : Bleek 296, 298.

Proto-!Wi : *|a

Meaning : women (pl.)

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

//Ng : |kake, |kaka, |kaŋ

N|huki : |aʔake, |aake

//Kxau : |kā-kn

References : Bleek 267-268, 270, 271, 274, 275, 278, 292, 296, 298, 300, 302, 307, 308, 584; \X<1.144>NFn; Maingard\x 239.

Proto-!Wi : *|a

Meaning : tail

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Haasi : i |ā a

References : Story 22.

Proto-!Wi : *|a ~ *|ʔa

Meaning : to cut

|Xam : |ã, |ã̄, |ắ (B.), |ã, |ã̄, |á|á, |ă^ŋ|ă^ŋ (Ll.)

//Ng : |kā

N|huki : |a, |aa-ku, g|aa-ku

#Khomani : |kā, |kai (Mg.)

|Auni : |kha, |ʔa, |a ho

Notes : It is not excluded that there are two different roots here, as the |Xam forms with their glottal stop efflux do not at all match the glottal stop-less forms in N|huki and other languages.

References : Bleek 267, 294, 311; \X<1.144>NFn\x.

Proto-!Wi : *|a̰

Meaning : snake

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : |k"ā́ū̇ "black snake" (B.)

//Ng : |k"ase; |k"aū "long yellow snake"

N|huki : |a̰a̰-si, |ã̰ã̰-si

#Khomani : =|kxʔau

//Kxau : |hạ̃, |ã

Notes : The forms with the velar affricate efflux should probably be distinguished from forms with the zero efflux as later borrowings from Khoekhoe.

References : Bleek 286, 294, 335, 338; Meinhof 1929: 187; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *|a̰o

Meaning : young male

|Xam : |kạ́o, |kạó (Ll.)

Seroa : |ãũ "male"

Notes : This looks like the main word for "male" in Seroa, but not anywhere else. Cf., perhaps, !Xóõ |gā̯hʔã-ká "mature male steenbok".

References : Bleek 270, 301.

Proto-!Wi : *|am

Meaning : to take, fetch, pick up

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : |kam, |kámmeṅ, |kạ́mme_ṅ, |kámmiṅ (B.), |kḁm, |kŭm, |kạmmăiṅ (Ll.)

References : Bleek 299-300; 326, 327.

Proto-!Wi : *|au

Meaning : springhare

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

//Ng : =|kau

N|huki : |ǝu

References : Bleek 349; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *|e

Meaning : to say

|Xam : |kē, |kéē_tǝn (B.); |kē (Ll.) "say, talk to, call"

//Ng : |gē

|Haasi : |wa (?)

References : Bleek 277, 305-6.

Proto-!Wi : *|e

Meaning : blue wildebeest (Gnu)

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

//Ng : |kē

N|huki : |ee; |ǝe "buffalo" (?)

#Khomani : =|ke (Dk.)

//Kxau : |kẽ

|Auni : =|kē

References : Bleek 307; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *|e

Stems : *|ẽ

Meaning : name

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : |kẽ, |ke (B.); |kẽ (Ll.)

//Ng : |kẽ

N|huki : ka |ĩ, ka |ẽ

//Kxau : |ẹ̄

//Xegwi (Batwa) : |ee (LH)

|Auni : |ke, |kẽn

References : Bleek 306-7; Meinhof 1929: 187; LHa 104; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *|e

Meaning : grass

|Xam : |kē_, |kē (B.), |kē, |khḗ (Ll.)

//Ng : |kē, |khɛ̄

#Khomani : |khe-si "blinkhaar grass" (Dk.)

//Ku//e : |kɛ̄

//Xegwi (Batwa) : |khē

References : Bleek 306, 312.

Proto-!Wi : *|e(^ŋ)

Meaning : to take, seize

|Xam : |kẽ-a, |kẽ-ā, |ke_^ŋ-ī (B.)

//Ng : |ke, |kẽ

#Khomani : |ke "to seize" (Mg.)

//Ku//e : |ke "to seize"

|Auni : |ke "to take"

References : Bleek 306, 307; Maingard 247.

Proto-!Wi : *|ɛ

Stems : *|ɛ̃

Meaning : heart

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : |ī̃ (B., Ll.)

//Ng : |gai, |ge

N|huki : |ĩĩ

#Khomani : |kēkji (Mg.)

//Kxau : |ae, |aisi

//Ku//e : |ɛ̄^ŋ

|Auni : |ɛ̄, |ē

|Haasi : |a |ge

|Nusan : |ẽ

References : Bleek 271, 274, 275, 292, 296, 309; Meinhof 1929: 186; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *|ha̰ (*|xa-?)

Stems : raw

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

//Ng : |xā

N|huki : |ha̰a̰

References : Bleek 362; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *|hana

Meaning : spleen

N|huki : |hana

References : NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *|hara

Meaning : stomach contents

|Xam : |khárră (Ll.)

N|huki : ŋ̊|hara

References : Bleek 312; NFn.