tea without sugar or milk, lit. dry tea.
v.-i. be merry/visibly elated/gleeful.
okucaccaliza amagulu, to prance, okucaccaliza ebigambo, to be two-faced, tell one person one thing and another person another.
ideo. for tke sound of dripping water. Ennyumba yatonnya cakacaka. Water kept dripping from the roof.
v.tr. caus. = camula. cf. -camufu.
shuffle (playing cards, lottery tickets), okucanga omu- piira, to demonstrate fancy footwork in soccer.
and cceccerere ideo. absolutely silent. N'asirika be cce. And he was completely silent. Naye nga wonna cceccerere- But there was absolute silence everywhere.
okubuuka be ccoppa, to run in leaps; to make one big bound, cf. coppacoppa, amacco.
ccungwa
be ccwa ideo. expressing the sound of cutting or rustling movements.
omwoyo or omutima (sometimes implied but not expressed); the personal object corresponds to the English subject, ne gunceekeera buto, and 1 started to worry again/become scared again.
(-ceereye) also spelled kyerewa v.i. Qjta.] be late/delayed.
of the type produced by the bells on the anklets of Basoga dancers).
v.i. be broken into pieces/smashed/shattered.
v.i. run; runaway.
v.tr. break to pieces.
okusingibwa omusango.
albidum. Its wood is easy to saw and takes a fine polish.
pursue relentlessly.
v.i. recip. redup. quarrel/bicker incessantly.cf. cocce.
v.i. recip. quarrel with one another; bicker; be at one another's throats.
v.tr. recip. caus. persecute; pick on (a person).
cf. cocca.
make marks on.
v.i. be or become very poor/destitute.
v.i. walk away dejected/in an unhappy frame of mind.
v.i. fade; lose one's freshness; lose one's beauty.
adv. in small quantities/amounts; in a trickling manner. Amaziga gajja culuculu. The tears came slowly trickling down (her) face.
boss around, give commands to.
place where dues are collected. cf. wooza.
a title of the Kabaka.
secondary syphilis.
v.tr. cut/break into pieces; fig. outrage. Probably from Lunyoro. The simple form is rare but the following derivatives are common.
okubala, okuteebereza.
a kyama.
ekinuubule.
sseffuliya, entamu.
omukago.
okukakamuka, okukalakala, okukuba amatu.
ennyana; (of leg) entumbwe.
71. (thunder), ekibwatuko, okubwatuka.
okuku ŋŋaanya, okuyita.
malekaani, amerikaani.
v. (hands), okukuba mungalo, okuwaatula engalo.
emboozi, okunyumya.
okuyita, okukoowoola; (name) okutuuma; (names = abuse) okuvuma;
okugobongotana, okutomeragana.
a mboozi.
okukyalira, okulambula.
v., okukwata, okuwambaatira, okukwatirira.
v., okwogera, okunyumya, okulojja, okubeesabeesa, okulomba.
okuyitibwa; (trade) omulimu.
engeri, olubu, ekibala; (school) ekibiina.
v., okukyusa, okufuula; be converted, okukyuka.
ekikuyiro.
akacwano.
okutwala, okwetikka; (news) okubuulira, okutegeeza.
become, okukakanyala.
v., okutaagula.
n., omusibe.
obugenyi, akagenyi, omugenyi.
esiifu, teefu.
ebbumba, olukuusi.
v., okusalira omusango, okulumiriza.
v.tr., okukkakkanya, okutereeza; become c., okukkakkana, okuteeka, okutereera, okulaala, okuwoleera,
longoofu, longoose, tukuvu, lungi.
okukkirizisa.
n., obuteefu, emirembe.
v., okunaaza, okulongoosa, okutukuza. c. teeth, okusenya. c. nails, okwesokoola enjala. become clean, okutukula, okulongooka, okwamuka.
ekibowabowa.