Protoform: *hi-/*ʔi-
Meaning: interrogative pronoun (what 1, who 2)
Andian language: e-bi- 1, e-mi 2
Chamalal: e-b 1,e-w/j 2
Tindi: i-ma-la 2
Karata: he-me 2
Botlikh: e-b 1, ẽ(w) 2
Bagvalal: e-b 1, e-m 2
Godoberi: e-b 1, e-(w,j)2
Comments: The root is used either independently (with the suffixed class marker -b) - mostly in the 3d (inanimate) class, but in Cham. and God. also in the 1st/2d classes - or in conjunction with another interrogative stem, *mV (see *ʔi-mV) - in the 1st/2d classes. Cham., Tind. and Kar. reflect also a stem *hidV- / *ʔidV- 'what' - but since there does not exist a class marker *-d, it is rather a quite different stem (see under *ʡǟdV 'thing; interrog. pronoun').
The most archaic form is Kar. (with *h-); other languages reflect the PA weakened variant, *ʔi-.
