Proto-Kui-Kuwi : *ki-
Meaning : to do
Kui : kiva (kit-), giva (git-) "to do, make, perform, cause; n. action, performance"
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) : kepali "to do, make"
Kuwi (Schulze) : kīnai (kitt-), kēpinai, pēkinai "to do, make"
Sunkarametta Kuwi : kēp- (-it-), pēk- (-it-) "to do, make"
Kuwi (Israel) : ki- (-t-), kēp- (-it-), pēk- (-it-) "to do, make"
Additional forms : Also Kui pl. action gipka (gipki-)
Notes : Forms like kēp-, pēk- are secondary, being formed from the fusion of the root *ki- and the p-marker (in this case added certainly to mark the transitivity of the action). Here, in several dialects, it has been reinterpreted as part of the root and therefore the verb itself has shifted to it-conjugation. An interesting type of metathese, the opposite of the famous kepti < pekti in Lithuanian and skeptomai < spektomai in Greek. The voicing in Kui is probably due to kiva being used as an auxiliary verb and thus subject to sandhi.
Number in DED : 1957
