o- (mu/ini) kind of small tree, Thylachium africanum. The leaves produce a poison which was formerly used in trials by ordeal, cf. amaduudu.

o- (mu/ba) one who grows rapidly (e.g., a child, young adolescent). c f. Iduuma.

i, o- (mu/ba) commander; commanding officer. omuduumizi w'amagye, the commander of the army. cf. ^duuma.

o- also omuduuze (mu/ba) scoffer, one who is scornful, cf. duula.

o- (mu/ba) worthless person.

o- (mu/ba) wrecker; bungler. cf. faafaagana.

0- (mu/ba) Pharisee.

o- (mu/mi) [Su>.] mattress.

o- (mu/ba) weak/lazy/cowardly person.

o- (mu/ba) impotent man. cf. ^fa, fiirwa.

o- (mu/ba) a woman whose children die when they are babies, cf. ffa.

o- (mu/ba) dead person, cf. lfa, -fu, ssemufu.

o- (mu/ba) one who is ruled, subject. cf. fuga. mufuka (la) kind of banana used for making beer.

o- (mu/mi) case for carrying arrows; bag; purse, cf. fuka.

o- (mu/mi) [Su>. 3 gutter, water pipe, drain.

o- (mu/ba) one who snores, snorer. cf. fuluuta.

o- (mu/ba) one who cooks, omu- tumbi v.1ki-, colioq. wife, cf, Iumba.

o- (mu/mi) back muscle, erector spinae.

o- (mu/ba) cook. cf. fumba.

o- (mu/ba) married person, cf. fumba.

o- (mu/ba) spearman, one who spears in hunting, cf. fumita.

o- (mu/ba) one who has been wounded with a spear or knife, cf. fumita.

o- (mu/ba) [Lunyoro~\ magician; medicine man; doctor.

to gorge oneself. cf. fundeera.

o- (mu/ba) [Sw. J artisan; skilled workman; repairman, cf. effundi.

o- (mu/ba) getter, one who gets/obtains. cf. funa.

o- (mu/ba) miserly/selfish person. cf. futaafutana.

o- (mu/mi) doorpost, post on either side of the door constructed of reeds or some other material.

o- adv. upside down, reversed. cf. fuula.

o- (mu/ba) magician, conjurer. cf. fuuka, fuusa.

o- (mu/ba) lit. blower, one who blows, omufuuyi w'amazzi, beer drinker, liquor drinker, omufuuyi w'omulere, Trumpet/clarinet player. omufuuyi w'omupiira, referee (in football). cf. fuuwa.

o- (mu/mi) good luck; the smoking of medicine for the purpose of producing good (or sometimes bad) effects on others, c f. fuuwa.

o- (mu/ba) orphan, person who has lost both of his parents. See enfuuzi which is much more common.

o- (mu/ba) ruler, sovereign; government official; administrator; director, executive. abafuzi b'amatwale, colonial rulers. cf. fuga.

n., ekikompe.

o- (mu/mi) arch, perfume; smell.

o- (mu/mi) kind of long, slender drum.

o- (mu/mi) arch, headband of plantain bark alleged to cure headaches.

o- (mu/mi) [_Sw. bread; loaf, ebifo eby'omugaati omunene, high-paying positions.

o- (mu/mi) cabbage tree, Anthocleista schweinfurthii. generous giver; one who gives wastefully or to excess, cf. gaba, gabangula.

o- (mu/ba) sharer; partaker. cf. gaba, gabanya.

o- (mu/ba) general, commander, one who has been assigned to head a military expedition; with cap. formerly the tide of the hereditary ruler of Ankole. cf. gaba.

o- (mu/ba) generous person, liberal person; one who distributes, distributor. omugabo w'awata, milk distributor (mu/mi) divisor in arithmetic, cf. gaba.

o- (mu/mi) share, portion; part; stock; quotient (in arithmetic), cf. gaba.

o- (mu/ba) giver of a feast; lavish host/entertainer; generous giver; master of ceremonies, cf. gaba, gabula.

o- (mu/ba) rich person, cf. -gagga.

o- (mu/mi) framework structure built around an anthill to help in the catching and collecting of nswa. Thick materials, such as banana leaves, are placed over the structure so that the nswa will not fly away but will collect in holes dug for the purpose. See nvubo.

o- (mu/mi) kind of long, slender drum. cf. engalabi.

o- (mu/ba) formerly page, boy residing in the palace and serving the Kabaka.

o- (mu/ba) careless/indifferent/ negligent person, cf. galamba.

o- (mu/mi) trouble; unsettled condition, cf. galangatana.

o- (mu/ba) colloq. terror, something terrible, omuganda w'obulwadde, a terrible disease, omuganda w'enkula, a monstrous rhinoceros.

O- (mu/ba) native of Buganda. Omuganda agamba nti... The Muganda says... (a stylized introduction to the telling of a proverb), cf. Obuganda, ^ekiganda, Oluganda.

o- usually plur. emigandu (mu/mi) trouble, problem, difficulty.

o- (mu/ba) doctor, physician; witch doctor, cf. Iganga.

o- (mu/mi) usually in association with another noun worn out; wretched; crippled, omugangatika gw'omusajja, a wretched man; a man who is all skin and bones. Emmotoka yagula mugangatika. He bought an old beaten-up car. cf. gangatika.

o- (mu/ba) stingy/parsimonious/ frugal person, cf. ganira, ganiriza.

o- (mu/mi) swarming (of termites); period/time when termites or grasshoppers swarm in great abundance, cf. eggana, olugana.

o- (mu/mi) profit, benefit, advantage, use. cf. ganyula.

o- (mu/ba) favorite, favorite person; sweetheart, lover, darling, cf. ganja, Ssaabaganzi.

o- (mu/mi) use, profit; advantage. with the -a of rel. profitable, advantageous. c f. gasa.

o- (mu/ba) mediator, cf. gatta.

o- (mu/mi) kind of small bush the roots of which are chewed raw.

o- also mugayizi (mu/ba) scornful/ contemptuous person, cf. gaya, gayira.

o- (mu/mi) headband worn by warriors; wreath; ribbon; band supporting the veil of a bride, cf. oluge.

o- (mu/mi) corpulence, fatness. cf- gejja.

who was the ‘Katikkiro of the Dead,' and governed Busiro [County].” (J. Roscoe)

o- (mu/mi) rifle; shotgun.

o- (mu/ba) lavish giver; one who entertains; arch, one who brings food from the country, cf. gemula.

o- (mu/mi) track, trail (of animals, esp. ants). Eyawukuna ku mugendo y'efuuka kaasa. (prov.) lit. (The nsanafu, a kind of soldier ant) which leaves the track becomes a kaasa (an even fiercer kind of soldier ant). Yayawukana ku mugendo. He left the beaten track. He struck out on his own. cf. genda.