Proto-Kui-Kuwi : *jamb-
Meaning : interr. base
Kui : imbai, embai "who (sg. or pl. masc. or fem.)"
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) : ambasi, ambari, ambay, amba'i "who (masc. sg., pl., fem. sg., pl.)"
Kuwi (Schulze) : imba'asi, imba'ari, imbai, imbaɨ/imbaari "which man, which men, which woman or thing, which women or things"
Additional forms : Also Kui embe, imbe where; bāi who (< imbai); Kuwi_F imin what kind; imbi, imbi'a where; Kuwi_S imbinaɨ which thing, which things; adj. for all genders imbini; imbia where
Notes : One of two examples on PK *y-, this interrogative pronoun in PK had the meaning 'who', opposed to *yān- 'what' and *ec- 'which, how many'. Lost everywhere, the initial *y-, however, left serious traces everywhere, since in Kui it left the variants i- and e-, while in Kuwi_F *ya- > a- before the following -a- and > i- before the following -i-.
Number in DED : 5151
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