Reconstruction:Proto-South Cushitic/daqway

This Proto-South Cushitic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-South Cushitic

Etymology

From dakw'-; compare Kw'adza dakw'akw'ayiko.

Cognate with Awngi [Term?] (“dəɣʷarí”), Blin dəxʷara, Xamtanga [script needed] (dəxʷara), Qimant dəɣʷära.^[1]

Noun

*daqway m (plural *daqwaya'i n) (West Rift)^[2]

donkey

Descendants

Iraqw: daqwaay
Gorowa: daqway
Burunge: daqway
Alagwa: daqway
→ Mbugwe: ndáko
→ Nyaturu: ndoghwe
→ Rwanda-Rundi: indogoba
→ Sandawe: dak'wé
→ Sukuma: nzobe

References

^ Appleyard, David (2006) A Comparative Dictionary of Agaw languages (Kuschitische Sprachstudien; 24), Köln/Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 56
^ Kießling, Roland, Mous, Maarten (2003) “*daqway”, in The Lexical Reconstruction of West-Rift Southern Cushitic (Kuschitische Sprachstudien; 21), Köln/Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 88

[1] Appleyard, David (2006) A Comparative Dictionary of Agaw languages (Kuschitische Sprachstudien; 24), Köln/Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 56

[2] Kießling, Roland, Mous, Maarten (2003) “*daqway”, in The Lexical Reconstruction of West-Rift Southern Cushitic (Kuschitische Sprachstudien; 21), Köln/Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 88

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