v.i. be very busy/ preoccupied/troubled; move about busily.

to sit up all night with one on the brink of death; to go through the night when one is on the brink of death, tebuukye means literally it will not dawn, i.e., before dawn he will be dead. cf. Miya.

conjecture; count on, reckon on. kuteeba ggoolo, to shoot a goal (in soccer).

to make up/tell stories; slander.

think about.

v.i. neut. be rel e as able/ capable of being released/easy to release. Embwa eyo teteeka. That dog can't be let loose.

okuteeka nga ga Lubigi, to be as calm/serene as (the waters, amazzi) of the Lubigi (a river in Buganda). Ebintu byonna byateeka. Everything has calmed down.

v.i. have a discussion; come to a compromise.

v.tr. redup. prepare; make ready; arrange.

v.tr. set fire to.

v.tr. caus. cause to let go/release.

suggest; decide.

v.i. pant; breathe with difficulty; throb (of the heart); tick (of a clock). Aliko kateetera. He is extremely ill.

annoy. cf. akateetera, oluteeteru.

make an effort; be bothered/disturbed.

v.tr. caus. give trouble to; cause to take pains; disturb; annoy.

v.tr. know; understand; recognize; notice.

obutegeevu.

v.i. neut. 2

inform; mean, signify.

get out of the way (of), move away (from). Teguka nno nga tannajja. Get out of the way before he comes.

v.i. be very busy/ preoccupied; overwork.

v.tr. caus. make very busy; cause to overwork.

v.i. tremble in fear; panic.

v.i. be fearful/afraid; become frightened. Emmeeme entekemuse. I am. terribly frightened.

to doze, doze off, lit. cut logs, kutema lu- wenda, to cut a path; to mark the end of one's own land; fig. to be a pioneer, a pathfinder. kutema lubimbi, to cultivate intensively/a great deal, kutema mulanga or kutema kiwoobe, to wail loudly, kutema ka- kule or kutema kalali, to burst out laughing, kutema bikata, to hoe/ridge potatoes, kutema mwenge, to cut bananas for making beer, kukatema muntu, tell someone very bad or shocking news, lit. cut (laughter, implied by ka = akakuie) from a person. Yakantema. He told me something that had a shocking effect on me. kutema lizzi, to swim, kutema bigambo, to make unfounded statements.

shine, glisten.

(-temaggudde) also -etemaggula (-etemaggudde) v.i. give powerful blows with an ax or similar tool (but often in pretense or for mere show).

go from place to place (of peddlers), cf. omutembeeyi.

rush, hurry; be tucked in; be rather short (of trousers, a kkanzu, etc.). kutemerera bigambo, to slander, make slanderous statements.

v.tr. appl. 2 caus. hack/chop with/by means of. v.i. blink continually.

v.i. neut. be praiseworthy; be easy to tell about/describe. Bye yakola tebitendeka. The things which he 1 cf. ettendo.

reach an impasse, be at the end of one's rope.

v.i. slip; fall; break loose. E Bu-yindi a bantu batenduka buli lunaku olw'enjala. In India people die every day because of hunger, cf. ekitenduka; teruka.

okutenga ekigwo, to hurl (a person) to the ground, okutenga olubuto, to massage the abdomen with a special medicine so that a child may be bom without difficulty.

v.i. shake; tremble: vacillate.

sway, oscillate. Emmeeme entengee- tera. I feel sick at my stomach. I feel upset/worried.

make an effort, work hard, struggle.

v.tr. expose; isolate; leave alone/solitary. Ennaku zintengese. I am in great sorrow. I am under great stress.

v.i. tremble; tremble with fear; be fearful.

v.i. balance oneself; stand without moving; stand without supporting oneself (of a child learning to walk).

bother. cf. -tengezzi, kitengejja.

v.i. be enraptured/captivated; rarely become terrified.

of fresh fish).

v.i. & tr. be disobedient (to); refuse to comply (with).

obutengu.

glisten, shine.

nonsense, matters of no consequence, trifles.

v.tr. cause to despair; make falter; dismay; disappoint.

see tereka.

v.tr. appl. 2 caus. economize on; be stingy/frugal/parsimonious with.

be balanced; settle down (in a chair, to one's work); be peaceful/calm, regain one's composure; get straightened out; be corrected. Tukwate mpola byonna bijja kutereera. Let's take things easy, everything will be straightened out. ku- tereera bubya, to sit like a dish, i.e., to sit doing nothing, sit like a bump on a log.

put in good condition, kutereeza muntu, to lie to a person.

v.i. run; scuttle along for some distance.

there is/are not. cf. -li (under ba).

v.i. slip; stumble; trip; lose one's balance.

spill. Yanterudde omutima. He gave me cause for anxiety. cf. leruka, tenduka.

(-terunkanye) also teruukana v.i.

v.tr. appl. take the trouble in/for; work for the sake of.

make things troublesome for. cf. tebunkana.

v.i. burn.

concoct (a plan); improvise; invent, okutetenkanya amagezi, to figure out a way.

cleverly persuade/dissuade (someone who is doing or plans to do something objectionable).

gorge oneself on.

v.i. sway from side to side

v.tr. caus. hasten.

= foreg.

could no longer be prevented.

send over.

v.i. be attractive/beautiful (esp. of women).