South Khoisan (!Wi subgroup) etymology : Query result

Proto-!Wi : *|ui

Meaning : to give in exchange

|Xam : |ku̥ī, |kwī (Ll.)

References : Bleek 333.

Proto-!Wi : *|uma

Meaning : to know

|Haasi : |yma

References : Bleek 367.

Proto-!Wi : *|u(^ŋ)

Stems : *|u(^ŋ)-*|u(^ŋ)

Meaning : a k. of caterpillar

|Xam : |khúkǝn-|ŭ|ũnu "a certain caterpillar", |kúkǝn-|ū̆^ŋ-|ŭ^ŋnu "larva of Aloa, tiger mothe" (Ll.)

References : Bleek 314, 325.

Proto-!Wi : *|Ṽ

Meaning : to touch, catch

|Xam : |kắ^ŋ-ă^ŋ, |kā̀^ŋ, |kă^ŋ-ḯ (Ll.)

//Ng : |kẽ

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

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

|Auni : |ke "to take"

References : Bleek 295.

Proto-!Wi : *|V

Meaning : interrogative stem

|Haasi : |ha, |i "what"

References : Story 23.

Proto-!Wi : *|Vn

Meaning : to place oneself

|Xam : |kḁnń (B.)

References : Bleek 327.

Proto-!Wi : *|xa

Meaning : gemsbok

|Auni : |xāa

|Haasi : |xā

References : Bleek 362.

Proto-!Wi : *|xara

Meaning : different; separate

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : |x`árra (B.), |x`árra, |x`árra-sse (Ll.)

References : Bleek 363.

Proto-!Wi : *||ʔa

Meaning : to go

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : ||ā, ||ă, ||ăkǝn, ||aṅ (B.); ||a, ||ā, ||ă, ||ăṅ (Ll.)

//Ng : ||a, ||ā, ||ai

N|huki : ŋ̊||ʔaʔa

#Khomani : ||ʔa, ||ʔai, ||ga (Mg.)

//Kxau : ||ʔa, ||ʔā, ||ʔaṅ, ||ʔa-i

//Ku//e : ||an "to run"

!Gã!ne : ||a "not here"

//Xegwi (Batwa) : ||a

|Auni : ||a, ||ale

|Nusan : ||a

References : Bleek 512-13, 521; Maingard 246; Meinhof 1929: 185; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *||ʔa

Meaning : silver jackal (bat-eared fox)

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

N|huki : ŋ̊||ʔaʔa

#Khomani : =||ʔa (Dk.)

|Auni : -||a

References : Bleek 514; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *||ʔu

Meaning : skin

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Auni : -||ū, =||ʔu

|Haasi : ||ɔ

References : Bleek 627; Story 22.

Proto-!Wi : *||ʔʌn

Meaning : sun; day; thirst

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : ||kó^ŋïṅ, ||ȭi, ||ȭïṅ, ||ú^ŋïṅ (B.); ||ū^ŋï, ||k"ŏïṅ (Ll.)

//Ng : ||õe, ||õi, ||kõin, ||kõe

N|huki : ||ʔũĩ, ŋ̊||ʔũĩ

#Khomani : ||ʔũi (Mg.)

//Kxau : ||ʔọ̃ẹ̃

//Xegwi (Batwa) : ||kõi, ||ūn; ||umi (LH)

|Auni : |kɛ(n) (?)

References : Bleek 307, 519, 584, 585, 607, 625, 626, 627, 628, 629; LHa 109; Maingard 243; Meinhof 1929: 187; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *||a

Stems : *||a-ĩ

Meaning : hunger, to hunger

|Xam : ||kaṅ (B.); ||kan̄́, ||kaṅ-a (Ll.)

//Ng : ||kwain, kwẽĩ, k"wãĩ

Seroa : !ã

References : Bleek 112, 127, 369, 555-6, 596.

Proto-!Wi : *||a

Stems : *||a-ĩ

Meaning : thorn

|Xam : ||kái||kai "thorns" (B.)

//Ng : ||kãĩ

Notes : In Bleek's dictionary seems to be often confused with the root for "tooth".

References : Bleek 551, 553.

Proto-!Wi : *||a

Meaning : cheek(s)

//Xegwi (Batwa) : ||kā

References : Bleek 547.

Proto-!Wi : *||a

Meaning : to burn

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Xam : ||ka, ||kā, ||kē_, ||kéi, ||kḗ_ï (B.); ||kă, ||kā, ||kà, ||kē, ||kēi, ||kēï (Ll.)

//Ng : ||ka, ||kē

N|huki : ||a-khu; kwa ||a kwa

//Ku//e : ||kā

//Xegwi (Batwa) : ||ka "to cook"

|Auni : ||ka "to cook"

References : Bleek 544-45, 566, 568; NFn.

Proto-!Wi : *||a

Meaning : many; all

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

//Xegwi (Batwa) : ||xain; qʔiŋ (LH) (?)

|Auni : ||kani, =||kar̃i, =||kãri, ||k"ari

References : Bleek 557, 559, 603, 632; LHa 117.

Proto-!Wi : *||a

Meaning : to fight

Bushman etymology : Bushman etymology

|Auni : ||ā

References : Bleek 513.

Proto-!Wi : *||a

Meaning : to give

|Auni : ||ka

References : Bleek 1929: 42.

Proto-!Wi : *||a (?)

Meaning : to kill

//Xegwi (Batwa) : ||ā, ||kʔai

References : Bleek 1929: 50.