e- or essanduuku (n/n or li/ma) [Sw.,Ar. 3 box; chest; suitcase; trunk; casket.

e- (li/ma) elephant tusk; ivory. cf. obusanga.

e- (n/n) kind of fine red barkcloth.

e- (li/ma) dry/withered piantain leaves, cf. obusanjasanja, ^ekisanja.

e- (li/ma) topmost branch of a tree; upper branch of a tree. cf. akasanso, ensanso.

e- (li/ma) joy, gladness; happiness; pleasure, cf. sanyuka.

e- (li/ma) forge; blacksmith's shop.

to be completely silent.

two, three, etc.) and with nouns of the lu/n and n/n classes.

e- no plur. (li/ma) fatness, ente eya ssava, a fat cow. cf. -sava, savuwala.

e- usually plur. (li/ma) fat; fatty tissue; lard. Amasava gankuba ku mwoyo. I am fed up with that fatty meat. cf. -sava, savuwala.

e- (li/ma) [S«u. ] barley.

e- (li/ma) county (when referring to Buganda); district; state; relig. diocese, owessaza (without l.V.'s = wassaza), county chief.

chief herdsman.

Mr.; madame (to princesses, wives of kings), bassebo ne bannyabo, ladies and gentlemen, ssebo wange, the poor fellow. Ssebo yajja. My father came.

enormous; fierce, deadly, ssebukuule w'empo- logoma, a huge lion.

small black cormorant, cf. ssemirindi.

sseddume w'ente, bull, sseddume w'endiga, ram. sseddume w'engabi, male bushbuck. cf. -lume, eddume.

e- (li/ma) bald patch running back from both sides of the forehead. Ekyenyi kye kyali kya masega. He had bald patches on both sides of his forehead, cf. ensega.

cf. omwenge.

cf. -gagga.

to be drunk, lit., to carry ‘Prince Beer' on the head. cf. omwenge.

the Book of Kings. cf. kabaka.

dreamer; head. cf. loota.

plur. bissekanyolya) gray heron; the name of a former Luganda- language newspaper.

foolish person; lazy/dull person.

e- (la) kind of large ant. cf. eddembwe, ekirembwe.

nnakkadde.

cf. enkoko.

giant groundsel, cf. koteka.

Trichilia redacta.

importance, etc. olutindo ssematindo, a huge bridge, ekisobyo ssemasobyo, a great blunder, olutalo ssematalo, a terrific battle/war; world war.

head of a household. cf. amaka.

charcoal. Formerly a title of the kabaka. It is used in the expression Ssemanda, agamenya em- bazzi n'okugiyunga, charcoal, that which (can) break an ax and weld it together, i.e., the all-powerful.

small cormorant. cf. sseddindi.

the poor fellow. cf. Innampala.

ruffian; offensivly pushy person.

Bagrus docmac.

cf. nnamwandu.

e- (li/ma) place for brewing, brewery; place where drinks are stored, cf. sena, senera, omusenero.

ssengange (ssejinange), ssengaawo, ssengaawe; ssengaffe, ssengammwe, ssengaabwe = my aunt, your aunt, his/her aunt, etc.

lit. I-have-left-it-I-have-gone-back-into-it (-ga- implies amazzi, water). Okukola kino kwe kujja okubeera ssengavuddemu ngazzeemu. To do this would be to repeat the same old mistake.

e- (li/ma) place where straining and filtering take place (usually for the purpose of making beer), cf. sengejja.

cf. olusenke.

e- (n/n) {Eng. ] arch. cent, current, in the plur. money, kugwa ssente, to become bankrupt; to go broke.

cf. entebe.

Bidens leucantha.

incessantly.

name, q.v. Sserinnya bbi litta nnyiniryo. (prov.) lit. A bad name/reputation kills its owner.

cf. kiserinnyabbi. See also the previous entry.

pants, pair of pants. cf. empale.

one who comes. Sserwajja okwota, lukiza nnyinimu entannama. (prov.) The one who comes and warms himself at the fire prevents the owner of the house from squatting down fat the fire), sserwajjo- kwota (la) stranger; foreigner, immigrant.

cf. amaanyi.

Trichilia redacta.

Polyscias fulva, from which madinda (xylophones) are made.

father of the bride.

the Ancient of Days (nnaku = plur. of olunaku). also Katonda Ssewannaku.

cf. nnaava.

nnyazaala.

cf. ekiwundu.

more frequently spelled si, q.v.

be put/ placed, etc.

e- (li/ma) stone, brick or ball of clay used for cooking. Three of these are usually arranged in the form of a triangle. The pot is placed on top and the firewood is inserted through the openings at the sides, amasiga is now also used to designate the cooking area of a stove or oven, essiga is also the term applied to the largest subdivision of a clan. cf. obusiga.

e- plur. bissigga (la) kind of reddish- brown centipede. To see one is a bad omen signifying that someone will die.

e- (n/n) kind of open cooking stove.

adj. tremendous, earth- shaking, lit. tree-uprooting, olukunnaana ssigulamiti, a tremendous rally/meeting. cf. sigula, omuti.

e- (li/ma) plumage; hair on the neck of an animal, cf. olusiisi.

jet-black, very black.

e- (li/ma) slowness, kutambuza ssiiso, to walk slowly.

e- (Ji/ma) anchor, cf. zsika.