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butaka

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o- (bu/-) freehold estates of the clans; ancestral home; place where one was born, home, kugwa butaka, to be fruitless, have no result. Enteesaganya zigudde butaka. The negotiations have fallen through. Ssente zaffe zigudde butaka. Our money has been wasted. cf. ettaka, omutaka.

butaka, o- (bu/-) freehold estates of the clans; ancestral home; place where one was born, home, kugwa butaka, to be fruitless, have no result. Enteesaganya zigudde butaka. The negotiations have fallen through. Ssente zaffe zigudde butaka. Our money has been wasted. cf. ettaka, omutaka.

Related Words
buta- the characteristic of the neg. inf. kugenda to go; butagenda, not to go. kumanya, to know; butamanya, not to know; ignorance. butaaba o- adv. like tobacco, ennaku kuzinywa butaaba, lit. to drink the days (or sorrow; ennaku may mean either) like tobacco, i.e., to p butaabuta (-buseebuse) v.i. redupl. bulaabutana (-butaabutanye) v.i. redup. + na - buta (but somewhat more emphatic). butaala. o- adv. untethered unconfined (of an animal); free, having no commitments (of a person); on the loose, at large (of a criminal); free, offering freed butaamanvu o- less often obutaamaavu (bu/-) fury, ferocity, wildness, cf. -taamaavu; taama. butaddira o- neg. inf. as adv. for good, forever, lit. not to return, cf. ^dda, ddira. butafaayo o- (bu/-) neg. inf. of %a, q.v. indifference, unconcern; carelessness; laziness. butagali o- with the -a of rel. knock-kneed. Wa butagali. He is knock-kneed, cf. tagala. butalagge o- (bu/-) rust. cf. talagga. butali o- (bu/-) neg. inf. of-li, not to be. mu butali bugenderevu, unintentionally, mu butali butongole, unofficially. butaliimu o- (bu/-) stupidity, nonsense. cf. -li, ebitaliimu. butama (-butamye) v.i. bend down bend over; squat; crouch; sit. cf. ekibutamu.