v.i. & tr. appl. 2 keep sucking; suck all the time.
v.i. be or become white; be light/bright; be clear (of the sky).
v.i. appl. 2 be or become pale.
v.tr. caus. go through/ traverse with/by means of; cause to get through; enable to pass through (a period of time).
become clear; clear up. Obudde bwerudde. The weather has cleared up. v.tr. clean out, clear out; cause to appear; bring to light; reveal, expose, okwerula ekibanja, to clear a plot of land.
v.tr. appl. leave; h an do n desert fo rs ak -
of food, milk or fig. of a child); go wrong morally; get damaged/ ruined (e.g., of a mechanical implement). Yayonooneka omutwe. He went insane.
v.tr. conv. caus. cause to disperse; open a way/passage; split; tear open; tear up.
v.i. conv. 2 be dispersed/scattered; be tom/tom apart; be dissipated; come apart.
preferably at least; let alone, to say nothing of; not even. Yadde nno yandimbuulidde nti agenda. At least he could have told me that he was leaving. With the enclitic -ko, yadde means slightly better. Omulwadde ali yaddeko. The patient is feeling slightly better, cf. wadde.
v.tr. caus. cause to make an uproar. cf. oluyoogaano.
extend, be extensive; be stout; be flattened. Entebe ey'aba- biri mu bbaasi ayagala agituuleko bw'omu ayagaagale nga Lwera. He likes to take a double seat in the bus and spread all over it like Lwera (a flat treeless area between Buddu and Mawokota). okwagaagala inf.
obulo) which has spilled cannot be scooped up. No crying over spilt milk. okuyoola inf. cf. omuyoolerero.
of cloth). okuyeyuka inf.
school); skip a day; fail to come; stay over, okwosa enkya, the day after tomorrow, enduulu ezitayosa, regular/constant alarms. Tayosa kusoma mawulire. He never misses reading the news. Omwana oyo ayosa nnyo okugenda okusoma. The child is very irregular in his school attendance. okwosa inf.
ekyoterezo, ekyotezo, ekyoto, omwosi.
v.tr. appl. caus. wish for (someone). Tukwagaliza obu- wanguzi mu bigendererwa byo. We wish you success in your objectives.
v.tr. appl. learn; learn at/ in/for.
v.tr. appl. caus. teach; preach.
v.tr. caus. 2 cause to want/love. Ekigendererwa ekikulu kwe kwagazisa abaana eby'obulimi. The chief objective is to make children like farming.
obuyigirize, ejjigirizo, omuyigiriza, omuyigirizwa, omuyizi, enjigiriza.
v.i. recip. like each other; love each other. Abagagga n'abagagga baagalana. fprou.J Rich people like each other. Birds of a feather flock together.
ekyolezo, omwozi, omwozo.
v.tr. redup. feel; caress. okwagayaga inf.
v.tr. cause to peel (of the skin); strip off.
v.tr. appl. 2 caus. caress/soothe (an animal).
v.i. tear; get split; burst.
v.i. recip. hunt each other.
reproach; become angry at.
v.tr. appl. caus. cause to shine; make shine for.
v.tr. appl. keep joining; join all the time; join/connect poorly.
of the skin); turn yellowish. Ebijanjaalo byakiridde olw'aka- sana akangi. The beans have turned yellow because of too much sun.
saliva), kuyunguka maziga, to burst into tears.
v.tr. conv. cause to give way/fall/collapse; tilt. Ekyo kyali tekinjigula ttama. That did not disturb me in the least. cf. yegeka.
select; assign (to a task); sort, sort out.
adv. with difficulty/hardship.
v.tr. conv. 2 separate; analyze.
ekikere kyayaza ennyama ku mutwe. (prov.) That which is inedible does not fail to become more abundant, the the frog has more flesh on the head (than elsewhere). Perhaps = the best things are the least abundant. okwala inf.
njigulizza) v.i. stand in a position in which one hip is higher than the other, okutuula ng'oyigulizza, to sit with one hip in a higher position than the other.
v.tr. caus. multiply; cause to increase/spread; increase/spread by means of/with.
interj. of surprise.
disintegrate; be boiled to shreds; be watered down.
v.tr. appl. caus. increase for. Katonda yamwaliza abaana. God biessed him with children.
v.tr. appl. 2 caus. increase; make adequate/complete. cf. obuyaliri.
atambula ayiikayiika. N. has become so fat that when she walks she spills over.
V.I. sway; move about; shake.
v.tr. appl. 2 spread out carefully; keep spreading out. Yaliirira abagenyi omukeeka. Spread out a mat for the guests.
(n/n) CEng.] acre.
CF. -yuuganyi, omuyuu- ganyi; yuuga, yuuguuma, yuuya.
v.tr. caus. make spread/ lay out.
yuugana, yuuya.
v.i. finish one's turn (in the game of mweso).
perform a gracious act for, help. Omutengu talya kiyiiyize. (prov.) A recalcitrant/disobedient (child) is not the sort one is inclined to lavish favors on.
stop; maintain oneself/ itself, get along. Eggwanga okuyimirirawo lyetaaga ensimbi. A nation needs money in order to maintain itself/stand/get along, kuyimirira kkongojjo, to stand on one foot.
suspend (an operation, employment, etc.); set up, establish; erect. Obulamu bwe abuyimiri- zawo na bya buvubi. He supports himself [lit. maintains his life) by fishing. Omubaka yayimiriztbwa okumala ennaku ssalu. The representative was suspended for three days.
v.i. recip. help one another.
include, obuvunaanyizibwa buno buyimbagalanye ebintu bingi, This responsibility involves many things.
v.tr. appl. caus. cause to dress for; cause to carry on the person.
v.tr. caus. make dress; dress (another person); clothe.
v.i. conv. become released/detached/unjoined.
set free; strip the bark from (a barkcloth tree), kuyimbnla muntu ku mugwa (or ku nkondo), to release a person from a rope (or peg), i.e., give a person freedom to look after himself (sometimes with the implication that he may make bad use of this freedom). kuyimbula muliro, colloq., to drive very fast, step on the gas.'
v.tr. conv. 2 - yimbula but more emphatic.
= yambula.
v.tr. caus. make dim/blind.
v.tr. caus. cause to swell up/become fat. cf. zimbulukuka.
v.tr. caus. cause to go up; make climb; raise. cf. amambuka.
v.tr. appl. keep urging on; reverberate (of the ears).