Proto-Khoisan : *cimV
Meaning : sun, day
Notes : NK forms are sometimes thought to represent an old borrowing from Khoe, but the possibility of common inheritance is equally strong (the word is firmly reconstructible for North Khoisan, and, on the other hand, not found in Nama - the most obvious source of borrowing - in the meaning 'sun'). If the Sandawe form belongs here, what we have is quite possibly a bisyllabic structure reduction with secondary click formation: *cVmV- > *cVm- > *|Vm-.
