e- (ki/bi) thigh, cf. samba.

e- (ki/bi) football field. cf. samba, essambiro.

e- (ki/bi) overgrown patch of weeds; area under stubble, cf. sambula.

e- (ki/bi) hair comb. cf. sanirira.

e- (ki/bi) shift, rotation, turn, okukola ebisanja, to work in rotation, mu bisanja, in shifts, ekisanja ky'emmale, a load of smoked mmale fish.

e- (ki/bi) dry/withered plantain leaves used in making packages, containers, pillows, etc., and in thatching huts. cf. essanja.

e- (ki/bi) projection from the roof; porch.

e- (ki/bi) grass spread on the floor; in the plur. trash, litter, rubbish, cf. sasa.

e- (ki/bi) lit. something empty or emptied; empty cell of honeycomb; husk; fig. an empty, shallow person; one who has become totally depraved, ebisassalala by'omupunga, rice husks, ne nsigala kisassalala, and I remained petrified, all the strength and stamina had gone from me. cf. -sa.

e- (ki/bi) kind of large soft yam.

e- (ki/bi) time; period of time, ekiseera ekinene, a long time, ebiseera eby'eddembe, leisure time, ebiseera eby'omu maaso, the future, abakozi ab'eki- seera, temporary employees, gavumenti ey'ekiseera, provisional government, ebiseera eby'akabenje, period of emergency, okukuuma ebiseera, to be on time, okumala ebiseera, to waste time. cf. akaseera.

e- (ki/bi) line, wrinkle; segment (e-S-> of a caterpillar). Omusomo gummaze ebiseera mu bulago. The course was extremely difficult, lit. finished up the wrinkles on my neck.

e- (ki/bi) soft canker.

e- (ki/bi) crevice; remote corner; recess; side of a porch, ebisegguusi by'omutima, the depths of the heart, cf. akasegguusi.

e- (ki/bi) scum/debris floating on a liquid.

e- (ki/bi) hill of nsejjere termites.

e- (ki/bi) wrist.

e- (ki/bi) large umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum grantii) from which nseke (straws, pipestems, etc.) are made. cf. oluseke.

e- (ki/bi) diaphragm.

e- (ki/bi) wall; partition; room; cell, ebisenge by'enjuki, honeycomb, cells built by bees in their nest. cf. akasenge.

e- (ki/bi) swamp, lowland marsh.

e- adv. furtively, on the sly; imperceptibly. okugenda ekiserebetu, to slip away, sneak away. cf. sereba.

e- (ki/bi) also sserinnyabbi (la) kind of plant resembling a cactus.

e- (ki/bi) large plaited basket. Entongooli y'emu ku bivuga bye bayita ebizibu okukuba, naye abaana baffe abo bayisa mukka mu kisero. The entongooli is one of the instruments which is described as difficult to play, but our children play it without any trouble at all, lit. they pass air through the basket.

e- rare sing, of ebisesemye, q.v.

e- (ki/bi) lit. that which fastens; bolt; bar. cf. siba.

e- (ki/bi) sheep/goat pen; enclosure for cattle; chicken coop, okuyingira mu kisibo ky'obufumbo, to join the ranks of the married, cf. siba.

e- see ebisibosibo.

be hidden.

e- (ki/bi) remainder, that which is left over; relig. relic, cf. sigala.

e- (ki/bi) eyebrow, cf. ensige.

e- (ki/bi) fast, fasting; time of fasting, Lent; year. cf. siiba.

e- (ki/bi) shade, shadow, cf. siikiriza.

e- (ki/bi) arch, kind of caterpillar.

e- lit. that which pulls (sika) the trousers (mpale). ebiraato eby'eki- sikampale, high boots.

e- (ki/bi) log, stump, okutema ebisiki, to nod, doze, doze off. cf. ^akasiki.

e- (ki/bi) plant, shrub, young tree. cf. simba.

e- (ki/bi) ekisimbira kya taaba, tobacco plantation, cf. simba, simbira.

e- (ki/bi) excavation, cf. sima, Simula.

e- (ki/bi) track; path; company on the march, expedition, cf. omusinde.

e- (ki/bi) Rom. Cath. morning prayers; evening prayers.

e- (ki/bi) kind of large fish, barbel, Barbus radcliffi; half of a bunch of bananas broken off. See enkuyu & enkwekwe.

e- (ki/bi) heel. cf. sinziira.

e- (ki/bi) bad luck, misfortune.

e- (ki/bi) hole/bump in a road; fig. hardship, cf. sirikka, akasirikko.

e- also kisiriiza (ki/bi) charred wood; cinder, cf. siriira, akasirinza.

cause to hide. cf. enkiso.

e- (ki/bi) watch of the night; sleep, okukwata ekisisimuka, to sleep. Ali mu kisisimuka. Heis asleep. E Bu- ngereza twakubayo ebisisimuka bibiri nga tugenda mu America. We spent two nights in England on our way to America, cf. sisimuka.

e- (ki/bi) combination of grass and bananas which cover the vat when beer is fermenting, kuwunya nga kisisiro, to smell like a brewery.

e- (ki/bi) kind of insect which has the coloring of soil (ettaka, q.v.)-, rare term for any earthenware pot.

e- (ki/bi) litter in which a sick person is placed, a stretcher, okuba ku kisituliro, to be very sick; to be bedridden. cf. si tula.

e- (ki/bi) knife, kukuba muntu kiso, to knife a person (esp. in the chest or stomach), cf. akaso.

e- (ki/bi) error, flaw, wrong (of a more permanent nature than that expres sed by kisobyo). Enkola ey'okusosola mu bantu eriko ebisobu bingi. The practice of discrimination against people has many evil aspects, cf. sobya.

e- (ki/bi) mistake, error; wrong, wrongdoing; foul (in football), cf. sobya.

e- also ekissokondo (ki/bi) kind of beetle.

e- (ki/bi) idiom (in language); metaphor; refrain (in a song); variation on a theme; improvisation, cf. soka.

e- (ki/bi) cape, headland.

e- (ki/bi) large white earthworm. Alya ng'ekisokomi. He eats like a pig.

e- (ki/bi) animal, mammal. cf. ^-akasolo, ensolo.

e- (ki/bi) gonorrhea.

e- (ki/bi) sharp pain (as of pleurisy). cf. songa.

e- (ki/bi) [Sw. ] gonorrhea.

e- (ki/bi) pardon, forgiveness. cf. sonyiwa.

e- (ki/bi) bean leaf (often used as a food).

e- (ki/bi) kind of small insect.

e- (ki/bi) com/maize stalk (after the ears havp been removed), cf. kasooli.

e- (ki/bi) piece of mud, mud; mud on the foot/shoe. cf. sootola.

bulbul, cf. ssossolye.

e- (ki/bi) shell, ebisosonkole by'amagi, eggshells, cf. -esosonkola, -esusunkula.

e- with the -a of rel. tasty, savory.