v.tr. handle (excessively); finger; mess about with.

v.tr. redup. keep handling/fingering/messing about with. cf. toga.

v.i. be sated with food.

romp.

disturb, upset; torture; persecute.

v.i. neut. Omusajja oyo atiika. That man is someone to be afraid of.

q.v.

v.tr. appl. be afraid of; fear for.

v.i. app. redup. be cowardly/ex- cessively timid.

okutiiriisa ekitigi, to be insolent.

v.tr. appl. 2 be too frightened to help (someone); be too frightened to do for (someone). Yantiirira. He was afraid to help me.

f-tiiriridde) v.tr. appl. 2 fail to defend one's leader/commander; fail to meet one's obligations to.

intimidate.

obutiitiizi, omutiitiizi; tya.

v.i. become very cold/ chilled (usually of persons).

commission, oku- tikkira engule, to crown, okutikkirwa, to be ordained (as a minister).

of a truck).

v.tr. conv. take off (of someone's head); unload.

rush. v.tr. graft; tack (on); sew on. kutindigga ggendo, to make a very long trip, kutindigga nnume ya kigwo, to throw (a person) to the ground with force, cf. kantindiggwa, katindiggo, kitindiggo.

v.tr. pile up; pile on.

bulge.

become popular. Obutambaala obw'oku mutwe butinse. Head scarfs have become the rage.

v.i. appl. 2 tremble continuously.

v.i. run noisily/awkwardly (like a child).

v.tr. tie tightly; hold tightly.

v.i. be arrogant/insolent.

used with (y)cra, white, ekirevu ekyeru tukutuku, a snow- white beard, cf. tukula.

give a person a ride (in a car or on a bicycle).

get ‘soused.' Ayambadde n'atoba. He is very well dressed.

v.i. appl. Envi zintobekedde. Gray spots have appeared in my hair.

v.i. appl. 2 get slightly wet; start to get moist.

v.i. appl. 2 caus. cause to get wet.

v.tr. make wet; soak.

v.tr. handle (excessively); finger; manipulate; mess about with.

cf. toga.

v.i. be crushed/ mashed/squeezed very hard.

v.tr. crush; squash; squeeze hard.

begin; appear, loom up.

v.tr. caus. enrage. cf. tookaana.

v.i. perish; die; be ruined; be utterly destroyed; be utterly wasted; pour in torrents (of rain).

v.tr. cause to perish; ruin; utterly destroy. depressed/dejected; have the blues; have the starch taken out of one.

run away, flee, desert. right into; go right through, okutolontoka mu krbira, to penetrate/go through the forest.

to be evasive in speech.

(-toloomye) also tolotooma (-tolo- toomye) v.i. grumble; mutter; murmur; complain.

v.i. recip. copulate.

(-tomeraganyel v.i. recip. bump into one another.

v.i. appl. 2 keep complaining about unfair treatment; be very difficult to satisfy. cf. omutomi.

collapse; drop dead, die unexpectedly fas from a heart attack or stroke).

trim; kill, okutondola enjala, to trim one's nails.

v.i. be insulted/offended; become touchy/quick to take offense.

ripen incompletely (of bananas).

v.i. become a mutongole;

a foreign government). cf. -tongole, obutongole, ekitongole, omutongole.

v.i. grow thin; grow less/ fewer; diminish.

v.i. rain (with the subject enkuba); drip; leak; come down. Ajja ku- tonnya e Ntebbe olwaleero. He will arrive (by airplane) in Entebbe today. Ayambadde atonnya. He is very well dressed.

v.tr. caus. cause to rain/drip/exude; let fall/drop.

v.i. slip away under cover (or a guinea fowl in the bush); scuttle away; escape.

v.i. & tr. speak fluently; rattle off glibly; recite with ease; speak one's mind.

v.i. redup. be soft to the touch; seem to be on the verge of collapse.

lit. moving her lips up and down.

cf. toka.

i. be caught/trapped (of an animal in a net or trap); be quick at learning. Omwana atoola mangu. The child catches on quickly. Yalina omutwe nga gutoola nnyo, emigigi egimu yagibuuka. He had a good head on him, he skipped several grades.

v.i. go round and round. Omutwe gunneetooloola. My head is spin- ing. I feel giddy.

v.i. be slow/indecisive in one's actions.

(-tooye) more often toowala (-toowadde) v.i. be or become small; be or act humble/ insignificant; act like a child.

degrade.

v.tr. drench; soak; make wet (of rain).

difficulty, hardship.

lit. his drums have sounded.

(n/n) [Eng.] ton.