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nsi

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Meaning

e- (n/n) earth; land; country, nation; world, cf. obunnansi, akasi, ekinnansi, i omunnansi, -nnansi, wansi.

nsi, e- (n/n) earth; land; country, nation; world, cf. obunnansi, akasi, ekinnansi, i omunnansi, -nnansi, wansi.

Related Words
na (n' before a vowel) conj. and prep with (denoting instrument or association), adv. also, too. na is also regularly suffixed to -ii, is, are, io express possession. A nape ensingo. nda e- (n/n) womb; inside of the stomach, enda yange, my children, enda yaffe, our family /not necessarily the immediate family), ab'e ndizaala e- (n/n) kind of small ground frog which discharges an offensive secretion "'hen threatened. neck obulago,ensingo, ensikya, enkoto, ekkosi; stiff n., olukya; wear round the n., okwambika. ngulansigo e-: enkuba engulansigo, the first rain after the dry season, so called because it is the time for buying (gula) seeds (nsigo) for njoka e- plur. of olwoka, q.v. (lu/n) internal pains, enjoka z'ebigalanga, dyspepsia, dyspeptic pains, enjoka za kakenge, throbbing abdo njolo e- (n/n) as an attributive to other nouns a large quantity, much, many, ebisolo njolo, a large number of animals, ensimbi njolo, a nkanda e- (n/n) string snare, okukuba enkanda wansi, to refuse angrily/stubbornly/flatly. nkannansi e- (n/n) kukuba nkannansi, to refuse flatly, cf. kannanta. nkanu e- (n/n) harshness, fierceness; arrogance. Ono wa nkanu. He is an arrogant, harsh person. Basaba lwa nkanu. They make their reques nkoba e- (n/n) tall forest tree, Lovoa brownii, yielding a timber resembling walnut. Its trade name is Uganda Walnut. The wood is used e