Proto-Kui-Kuwi : *kug-
Meaning : to sit
Kui : kopka (< kok-p-; kokt-) "to sit, sit down, sit on, settle down, subside; n. act of sitting, subsidence"
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) : kūgali
Kuwi (Schulze) : kugginai
Sunkarametta Kuwi : kug- (-it-)
Parja Kuwi : kog-
Dongriya Kuwi : gok-
Kuwi (Mahanti) : kupki ki- "to make to sit"
Kuwi (Israel) : kug- (-it-)
Notes : In Kuwi dialects -o- > -u- probably because of surrounding back consonants. This is also one of the cases when conjugations in Kui and Kuwi do not match: it is t-conjugation in Kui and it-conjugation in Kuwi.
Number in DED : 1628
