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butamiivu

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Meaning

o- (bu/-) intoxication, drunkenness. cf. tamiira.

butamiivu, o- (bu/-) intoxication, drunkenness. cf. tamiira.

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. butaka o- (bu/-) freehold estates of the clans; ancestral home; place where one was born, home, kugwa butaka, to be fruitless, have no re 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.