v.i. speak slowly and deliberately; speak flippantly.

v.i. walk deliberately/ slowly; strut; speak very slowly and deliberately.

v.tr. caus. cause to strut; cause to speak slowly.

etc. cf. -etaaga, taagana.

beseech. Adaagira mwana we afudde. He is mourning for his child who. has died.

v.i. take things easy; have a casual/indifferent attitude; be a shirker.

cause to suffer, bring great suffering upon.

messed up. cf. dobonkana.

of a belt), cf. akadagado.

v.i. act in a casual/trifling manner; treat lightly; be indifferent; be lazy.

at last; eventually.

physician.

reply; repeat, do again. Yaddamu okuwulira obulumi mu lu- buto. He again felt pain in his stomach, okuddamu amaanyi, to recover one's strength.

q.v.

abaliddawo, future generations.

v.i. go back there; do again. Baasalawo obutaddayo kuzannyira mu lu- guudo. They decided not to play in the street any more. Saddayo kubakubako gange. I never saw them again, lit. hit them with my (eyes, amaaso, implied).

adj. disastrous, cataclysmic; huge, tremendous. Musisi ddekabusa, a hideous earthquake.

(la) [Eng.'] driver.

forever, forever and ever, okuva ddi na ddi, from time immemorial, ne bwe buliba ddi, no matter when it may be.

v.tr. appl. caus. restore to. return to; give back; bring back; give a portion of one's own meal to another as a sign of favor or friendship. Okuddiza guba mwoyo. (prov.) The capacity to share comes from the heart.

(la) [Eng. ] church deacon.

ddiŋŋanya recip. forms of dda, q.v.

v.i. come back again and again; be reconciled after a quarrel; play a return match. Omunafu addiŋŋana akira omulima nnabbimbi. (prov.) A weak cultivator who keeps working all the time is better than a good digger who works spasmodically.

etc.

put in a good word for; repeat, repeat to.

come after each other, be consecutive.

return to; go and return on the same day; come after, follow, succeed; be next to, be contiguous to; become slack (of a drum); deteriorate (in one's conduct, studies, etc.); behave badly. Amuddiridde ye Musoke. The one next to him is Musoke. Musoke takyasoma nnyo, addiridde. Musoke does not practice his religion much any more, he has become very lax. omwezi oguddirira, next month.

v.i. appl. 2 recip. - ddiriŋŋana.

kuddiriza ku kibone- rezo, to lessen a punishment, kuddiriza ku muwendo, to lower a price.

Hind. 3 laundryman, one who washes clothes.

also ddoola (n/n) [Eng.[\ dollar.

ebya ddoleddole, trifles, insignificant things, trinkets, cf. kaddole.

to trick; to play a certain children's game in which the participants attempt to deceive each other.

ddooti

be ddu-u-u ideo. with a bang. Emmundu n'evuga be ddu-u-u! And the gun went off with a bang.

-ddugaalirivu, obuddugavu, kaddugala, Omuddugavu, enzirugaze. See also ekizima & zigizigi.

operate, run. Baminista abanaddukanya Gavumenti, the Ministers who will run the Government. cf. obuddukiro, obuddusi, ekidduka, eki- ddukano, ekiddukiro, ekidduko, okudduka, omudduse, omuddusi, omudduukirizi, enzirukanya.

take refuge at; run for help to, appeal to; come to get, come for.

(la) lesser rains from September through November. Contr. ttoggo.

n. God. cf. lunda.

(1 i/ma) kind of barkcloth made from the nseerere tree. cf. kidundu.

n. a lubaale associated with hunters and animals. Ddungu ayizze. I am in luck.

v.tr. caus. cause to run; put to flight.

omukono ogwa ddyo, the right hand, ku ludda olwa ddyo, to the right side. Wa ddyo- He is right-handed, obukiika obwa ddyo, south. See kkono.

v.i. be cheap (of price).

v.tr. buy at a low price; acquire with little effort.

go out of date; become unsaleable; be canceled/annulled.

v.tr. spoil; mess up; bungle; confuse.

v.i. appl. pass. be annulled/canceled; be outdated.

abuse.

have everything going one's way. Ayogera adi- dimbuka. He speaks in a jeering way.

(n/n) [Eng. ] (academic) degree.

of a car).

q.v.

v.tr. tease; kid along; pretend to make a gift to.

n. = D.C. = District Commissioner.

collapse.

v.tr. dash to the ground; drop with a thud; hurl down.

(la) bad/inferior beer; nonsense.

v.i. talk nonsense; rave.

v.i. become impoverished; become destitute; suffer greatly. Bw'odooba bw'ogwa awabi ng'eyali munno akwerabira. (prov.) When you become destitute, when your situation becomes bad (lit. you fall into a bad place), then he who was your friend forgets you.

v.tr. caus. impoverish; bring great sufferings upon.

no plur. (la) spinach.

v.tr. give in large quantities (either as an outright gift or as a merchant who gives liberal portions of what he is selling). Kitaawe amudoomoolera omusimbi omuyitirivu. His father gives him a huge amount of/far too much money, cf. ekidoma.

omuzigo.

okunywesa.

(-duumye) grow rapidly; spring up rapidly. Ensigo endala ne zigwa mu maggwa; amaggwa ne gaduuma ne gazitta. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and destroyed them. cf. omuduumi.

parade.

fool, deceive; cajole, humor; flatter.

okugaana; (of day) okuwungeera.