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nnakayunga (la) conjunction (in grammar); bark of banana tree

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Meaning

purplish-black in color, used for tying packages, with the -a of rel. deep purplish-black, cf. yunga.

nnakayunga (la) conjunction (in grammar); bark of banana tree, purplish-black in color, used for tying packages, with the -a of rel. deep purplish-black, cf. yunga.

Related Words
nnaka e- (n/n) small edible termite common in Bulemeezi County, cf. akanakanaka. nnakabanda (la) kind of sweet potato. Olu- buto lwali lunkuba nnakabanda olw'enjala. My stomach was grumbling because of hunger. nnakabinyi (la) kind of cooking banana. nnakabirye (la) second stripping of cloth from the barkcloth tree; second generation muzzukulu nnakabirye, great-grandchild. cf. -biri, See also omusala, nnakasatwe. nnakabululu (la) kind of plantain common in Buddu. nnakacaacaali (la) kind of bitter cassava which often makes people giddy; fig• something likely to cause trouble/danger. nnakafuga (la) rare domineering woman. cf. fuga. nnakagongo with the -a of rel. descriptive of a type of pattern in the binding line of ceiling reeds. nnakakaaga (la) the constellation of the Pleiades. nnakakongo (la) kind of plantain which is characteristically long and pointed. nnakalanga (la) pygmy; person of dwarfish stature with a large head associated particularly with the forest of Kyaggwe. nnakalyakaani also spelled nnakalyako ani (la) socialism; excessively generous person one who gives away all he has.