Meaning :to start, start forth, break cover, come to light, attempt; n. starting forth, attempt
Kui :ḍunja (ḍunji-)
Additional forms :Also Kui pl. action ḍuska (ḍuski-); ḍuspa (ḍust-) to cause to start forth, drive out of cover, bring to light, remind; n. driving of game or enemy; ōṛa channel, drain
Additional forms :Also Kuwi_Mah dūtāli old woman; Kuwi_Isr dūti old
Notes :B&E compare it to PDR *mutu- 'old' (*mutu- > *mdu- > *dū-). If this is so, the PK protoform could as well be *mdū-, since initial clusters were a common thing in PK.
Additional forms :Also Kui est- which; estanju, estaru, estari, estai which man, which men, which woman or thing, which women or things; adj. esti; ese how much; eseka when; estava where; Kuwi_F eceka how much; ecela when; Kuwi_S ecceka how much.
Notes :This base was used as an interrogative quantitative pronoun in PK, although on the base of it Kui has developed an independent declinable 'which' pronoun. Real PK forms, however, are just *ecora (in Kui this suffix was confounded with the usual *-ṛi/*-ṇi suffix) 'how many' and *eceka 'how much', as well as, possibly, the simple *ece, preserved in Kui.
Kui :epa (et-) "to arrive, reach, overtake, be sufficient"
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) :ejali "to arrive, reach, overtake"
Sunkarametta Kuwi :e- (-t-)
Dongriya Kuwi :ne- (-t-)
Kuwi (Mahanti) :egowā- "to arrive (compound with vā- to come)"
Kuwi (Israel) :ega- "to arrive (motion base)"
Additional forms :Also Kui eppa (ept-) to cause to reach, cause to arrive at, cause to suffice; Kuwi_Isr eda- to arrive (personal object); ep- (-it-) to cause to reach.
Notes :The problem with this root is that in most (or all dialects) of Kui-Kuwi it was not used alone, but only in combination with the root *vā- 'to come' (*ey-v[ā]-) or other suffixes. In Kui *ey-v-a > *ey-pa > *e-pa, while eppa is a secondary causative. In Kuwi_F this cluster is probably responsible for the inlaut -j- (since PK *-y- normally > Kuwi_F -y-), although the exact way of development is unclear. Kuwi_Mah is an archaic form: egowā- obviously results from *ey-vā-. The n- in Kuwi_D is mysterious (although it does have parallels in Manda).
