get ready; busy oneself; be busy; be wholehearted in one's effort.

v.i. speak affectedly; speak in a high-pitched voice.

v.i. rare gird oneself tightly.

steady headache.

struggle.

complain. Okekema ki? What are you complaining about?

kukekemya bukoko, to make suffer, lit. cause to cackle like a chicken.

v.i. whine; groan; grunt.

put to the test; tempt.

v.i. redup. keep whining/groaning.

v.i. strut about in a proud and pompous manner.

v.i. redup. walk with one's shoulders bent downwards (as one who is carrying a heavy load).

sound out.

see ^kema.

v.i. rare walk painfully/ with difficulty.

be thin-waisted.

drool, okukenena endusu, to drool/dribble saliva. Bajja kukenena ennyo emitima. They will become heartsick/very sad.

v.i. drip; trickle; flow.

weigh.

v.i. become well-informed; become trained; become an expert.

v.i. become fat/o/ani- mals); become spoiled (of beer).

v.tr. caus. make well-informed; train; make into an expert. cf. -kenkufu.

check carefully.

become worried/troubled; become down- hearted/discouraged.

act ungraciously.

enkenyera.

v.tr. devour.

run down (of a liquid), emmeeme n'emukereketa, and he was worried.

v.tr. gnaw to bits cf. ekkesula.

(-kese) rare cut off. See ketula.

adj. what? which? Kino ki? What is this? Yagendayo mu mwaka ki era yali wa ggwanga ki? What year did he go there and from what country was he? ne bwe kinaaba ki, no matter what happens. The form baki (plur.) who? whom? sometimes occurs, cf. kiki, lwaki.

(la) grasshopper with reddish patches on the back and wings.

to look exasperated; to look to be on the verge of crying.

with the -a of rel. docile; quiet; peaceful; bashful. Ente ya kibonde y'eyiwa amata. (prov.) The docile cow spills the milk. (Used in describing an aggressive act by someone who is considered shy and retiring.) cf. bondeera. i

(la) coma; sleeping sickness. cf. bongoya.

shooting star, comet, lit. something which is seen (bona) by only one person (omu). cf. bona.

(la) nettle.

(la) edible lily

involuted/receding navel, cf. bula, bulira.

(la) kind of plantain.

(n/n) hoe.

(n/n) [Stv. ] whip (made of rhinoceros skin); lash. Wa kuku.bwa kifaalu taano. He is to beaten with five lashes.

(la) kind of plant resembling a bean plant; bean produced by the plant.

(la) drab/unattractive/objectionable person.

see mutuku.

upside down, reversed, cf. fuula, olulenge.

see kafuumuulampawu.

(la) kind of cooking banana; large round metal plate.

plur. bakiggala (la) deaf person. cf. ^ggala.

fez.

See Kizza.

(la) kind of edible mushroom.

v.tr. appl. 2 caus. go alongside of; sneak alongside of.

v.i. attend court or council; call formally on a chief; have a formal audience.

(plur. biibino) Here it is! (Here they are!) (Used in reference to nouns of the ki/bi class.)

v.tr. appl. have an audience with; pay an official visit to. Yayagala nnyo okukiikira Kabaka George V. mu Bungereza. He very much wanted to have an audience with King George V. in England.

v.tr. appl. 2 caus. interpose.

be disbanded (of a session). cf. akakiiko, olukiiko, omukiise.

v.tr. conv. 2 dismiss those attending an audience; end a session.

v.i. recip. despise one another. cf. -kiiyi.

also kijjamalenge (la) baby bom with feet first. (Formerly it was thought that such a child would grow up to he a criminal. It was often strangled and buried at the crossroads. Hence the word sometimes has the meaning of unknown corpse.) cf. olulenge.

(la) common brown bird about the size of a weaver.

or kafuuwe God forbid! Don't say things like that! cf. fuuwa.

pron. what? which? Kino kiki? What is this? Bino biki? What are these? cf. ki.

fumble, fumble around, flounder about.

thrash about.

project, protrude; fig. become disrespectful; become unruly. Tonkikinalako. Don't become insolent with me.

also kikomboozo (la) a person who makes off with/takes things which do not belong to him. cf. kombooza.

adv. alone.

gale. cf. kunta, ^kunnunta.