Proto-Kui-Kuwi : *dä-
Meaning : to cut
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) : dācali "to cut with knife"
Kuwi (Schulze) : dā'nai
Sunkarametta Kuwi : dā'- (dāt-)
Dongriya Kuwi : dre- (-t-)
Notes : The Kuwi_D form is extremely archaic, since it alone preserves the old -r- that has fallen out in all other dialects (in fact, this is a serious isogloss separating Dongriya Kuwi from all other Kuwi dialects). Formally the protoform should have been *dRä-, but since Kuwi_D material is extremely scarce and we only consider it an auxiliary dialect, the protoform is still being put down as *dä-.
Number in DED : 3140
