Reconstruction:Proto-Yoruboid/kú

Etymology
From or, ultimately from. Within Volta-Niger languages, see 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (probably also cognate with 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (see Proto-Akokoid *kú), 🇨🇬 (see Proto-Ukaan *ɣʷó). Outside of Volta-Niger, compare with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (from 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬)


 * Other Volta-Niger languages have a different cognate term also meaning to die. It is very unclear if these are from the same root term as kú. Many resources reconstruct them as originating from two different yet synonymous forms. See 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Similar cognates that are similar to this exist in Benue-Congo languages, such as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The possibility of their common origin with "ku" is suggested by the Proto-Potou-Akanic term, 🇨🇬, thereby linking it to the Atlantic-Congo proto-term, and a loss of the consonant "k". Both terms usually exist as "to kill," and "to die," with descendant languages either inheriting both terms from Proto-Atlantic-Congo (in which they would serve as doublets) or only one term in its current usage.

Verb

 * 1) to die
 * 2) to kill

Descendants

 * (all dialects)