Reconstructions

Note

Also Tanga kamus, Wogeo kusu ‘to spit’, Takia lusu ‘saliva’, ulusu ‘to spit’, Mbula kauzi ‘spittle, saliva (white or red)’, Tubetube kaiso ‘to spit out, as betel nut or bad food’, Gapapaiwa kanu, Mono-Alu amisu, Selau kimsə, Mbareke kamisu ‘to spit’. The Kairiru form is said to have a first-syllable vowel that varies with the vowel of the proclitic subject pronoun. This comparison is frustrating in that most forms are irregular in some way. However, its doublet POc *qanusi appears to be more amenable to systematic treatment, and between the two forms it seems far more likely that we are dealing with a set of historically related forms rather than a collection of similarities produced by chance.