e- (n/n) giraffe; bracelet (worn by women).

ekinywebwa, empande.

kind of marriage, cf. fumbirigana.

e- (n/n) back of the neck; area in the rear of the traditional three cooking stones. Buli kimugambibwa kimugwa mu nkoto. Everything that is said to him goes in one ear and comes out the other.

elder.

e- plur. of olusa, q.v.

e- (n/n) dense scrub.

olunaaba.

e- (n/n) myth; legend; tale; fable; tradition, cf. ^fuma.

e- (n/n) scar; mark or marks left by a disease (such as chicken pox) or a wound.

Funtumia elastic a.

e- (n/n) calabash with a long neck and no bulge at the top.

e- (n/n) drumbeat, manner of beating drums; celebration at the birth of twins; celebration, party, feast, entujjo eyaliko okusaza entuuyo ebibatu, a tremendous feast, lit. which caused one to wipe off the sweat with the palms ot the hands. cf. tujja.

emmere, ekyokulya.

e- (n/n) way of getting; income, omu- solo gw'enfuna, income tax. eby'enfuna, economy; economics, cf. funa.

e- (n/n) tenacious grass, couch or quitch grass.

vervet, Cer- copithecus aethiops.

e- (n/n) wild cherry; orange-yellow fruit of the musaali tree, q.v.

e- (n/n) type of fruit resembling an eggplant; testicles, synonym enjagi, q.v. Yatunyumiza entuula obugenyi. He told us a lot of nonsense, cf. omutula.

e- (n/n) time, occasion, enfunda nnyingi, many times, often, enfunda bbiri, twice.

e- plur. of oluku, q.v.

cf. omukisa.

e- (n/n) envy, jealousy; regret; discontent, cf. saalirwa.

e- (n/n) small pied kingfisher.

e- (n/n) suspensory bandage (e.g., as worn by a person with a broken arm), c f. funga.

e- (n/n) rain, kugwa nga nkuba, to arrive unannounced (of guests), lit. fall like rain. cf. obukubakuba, olukubakuba.

c /. enkota.

e- (n/n) grooved mallet used for beating out barkcloth.

e- (n/n) zebra.

e- no plur. (n/n) dust.

e- (n/n) way of striking/hitting. cf. 1 kuba.

cf. ekkundi, omukundi.

e- (n/n) flour, okusiwa nsaano ku mazzi, to add flour to water, i.e., to waste one's breath/time; to be too little/insignificant.

e-: okuyomba entulumuko, to become enraged, lose one's temper, cf. tulumuka.

e- (n/n) change(s); develop- ment(s). cf. fuuka.

e- with the -a of rel. almost raw, not properly cooked, emmere ey'enkubuggu, food which is not thoroughly cooked.

e- (n/n) enjoka ensaanuusi, colic, abdominal pains.

e- (n/n) round shoulders, ow'entu- mba, a person with round shoulders.

e- (n/n) kind of insect, ant lion; loss of hair caused by ringworm, cf. fuuwa.

e- (n/n) cunning and shrewd person, swindler.

adj. vast; far-ranging; spreading, which spreads, olusuku nnamulanda, a vast plantain garden. Yalaba olu- yombo lufuuse nnamulanda. He saw that the quarrel had begun to spread, cf. ^landa.

e- (n/n) kind of rattle used as a musical instrument consisting of a small dried gourd in which stones or seeds have been placed. It is associated with the native religious rites (pre-Christian).

e- (n/n) dropsy, ow'entumbi, a person with dropsy, cf. tumbika.

e- (n/n) orphan, one who has lost both parents, kubuulira nfuuzi kwennya- raira, to tell someone to do what he wants to do or what he is experienced in doing, lit. to tell an orphan to grieve, cf. obu- fuuzi, omufuuzi.

e- (n/n) tumor, swelling, lump, bump (usually on the head,but it may also occur on other parts of the body).

plur. of ki/bi cl.) kind of anteater.

e- (n/n) mallet with large grooves used for the first beating of barkcloth. See empuuzo.

e- (n/n) flexor muscle of the leg or forearm.

e- (n/n) string made of barkcloth used as a small torch to light fires, cf. olufuuzi.

e- with the -a of rel. cropped, docked (of ears, a tail, etc.); very short (of clothes). akateeteeyi ak'enkuggu, very short dress; mini-skirt, cf. ekikuggu.

royal chair; kind of mushroom.

e- (n/n) as an attributive to another noun barren (of certain animals), ente ensaata, barren cow(s). cf. saatawala.

e- (n/n) calf of the leg; in the plur. loins, kulega muntu ntumbwe, to follow after a person, dog the heels of a person. Mugende muzannyeemu emmere ekke mu ntumbwe. Go and play a while so your food may be digested, lit. go down into the calves. Kulemberamu y'akulega entu- mbwe. (prov.) lit. (He who says) ‘you go first' is measuring the size of your legs. He who gives you a task is trying to test your capabilities.

e- (n/n) piece of barkcloth formed into a cord to tie a corpse before burial; also worn by women around the waist as a sign of mourning.

e- usually plur. (n/n) bottoms; buttocks.

not yet edible.

e- (n/n) kind of tree with walnut- colored wood, Xylopia eminii.

e- (n/n) kind of edible termite.

e- (n/n) medium to large pieces of firewood, cf. obukuukuku, oluku.

e- (n/n) cooking pot (so named because when people used to go foraging for food [cf. saka] they took along a pot in which to put food), cf. saka, 1 akasaka.

e- (n/n) with the -a of rel. short (formerly only of barkcloth clothing but note of other types of clothes), obuteeteeyi obw'entundu, short skirts, mini-skirts. cf. ekitundu.

e- (n/n) way of projecting/striking out. with u'te -a of re'l. projecting; fig. obvious, apparent, eky'okulabirako eky'en- kukunala, a striking example, obulimba obw'enkukunala, flagrant lying, a glaring bit of deception. Kya nkukunala nti..., It is obvious/apparent that... cf. kukunala.

e- (n/n) rump of a fowl.

e- (n/n) flea, kusiikuula nkukunyi, to stir up trouble. Tonsiikuulira nkukunyi. Don't get me involved in trouble. nkukutu or mu nkukutu adv. secretly, in secret.

alone, separated from others. Buli omu ali bwa nnamunigina. Everyone is alone, as a noun singular (in grammar).

c- (u/n) day of clear weather during the rainy season.

e- (n/n) patches of barkcloth. cj. tunga, tungira.

e- (n/n) shape, form, appearance; kind; character; nature; way of growing. cf. kula, ekikula.

e- (n/n) (financial) allowance.

e- usually sing, (n/n) sesame, sem- sem; paste made out of crushed sesame. Kye yankoze entungo ekikola ggobe mu ki- bya. He treated me like a dog, lit. what he did too me sesame does to the ggobe in the bowl. cf. olutungotungo.