adj., koŋŋontbvu; get b., okugooma.

use rel. form of for eg.

crumble; break into pieces.

mmenzebenze) v.i. hobble along, walk painfully, walk with the back bent forward, bendegera (-bendegedde, mmendegedde) v. tr. make restitution for; reimburse; pay for (lit. and fig.); be accountable to. Ojja okubende- gera ebinaddawo. You will suffer the consequences (lit. that which will follow). Aliba abatutteyo alimmendegera. Whoever takes them there will have to answer to me for it.

hair); be bent/inclined; be on a slant; stoop, slouch; be poured. Olw'obuwanvu atambula abunduka. Because of his height he walks with a slouch. Ebintu ebiggya mu kiseera ekyo byabundu- kiranga kumu mu Buganda. At that time (all sorts of) new things were coming into Buganda at once.

o- adv. like a trap. Obulwadde bumuwese butego. He is all bent up from illness, cf. tega, omutego.

bend down, bend over; be bent; be warped; be crooked; be wrecked/damaged.

usually kootakoota (-koose- koose) v.i. (redup.) be bent/bent over; walk with a stoop, okukootakoota mu ga lumonde, lit. to bend over in the sweet- potato leaves (ga implies malagala, leaves), i.e., to try to hide, but to be found out; to want to do something but to fail because of the wrong approach/technique.

kyamisa (-kyamisizza) v.tr. caus. 1 & 2 cause to turn; cause to err, mislead; make crooked/bent, okukyamya ekigambo, to distort the meaning or pronunciation of a word.

bent. cf. ^funya.

to run swiftly.

curved (of horns), ente eya zigoto, a cow with horns curving forward.

v.i. be deformed; be stiff and bent. cf. gongobala.

bent. Omugongo yalina gwa nnalufumba. He had a stooped back. He was round-shouldered.

v.i. redup. walk with one's shoulders bent downwards (as one who is carrying a heavy load).

etc. Emikono gyefunyidde mu nkokola. The arms were bent at the elbows.

-eweta (-ewese) v.i. refl. bend oneself; be bent/crooked; turn; wind about.

of a branch of a tree), cf. koonoka.

-egonyagonya (-egonyezzagonyezza) v.i. refl. wriggle; twist; zigzag; get twisted/bent up. cf. gonyoka.

v.tr. refl. elude, clip by. Abaiujju bagezezzako okuyigga goonya eno kyokka n'okutuusa kati ekyabeekoota. The hunters have tried to hunt down this crocodile but until now it has still eluded them. cf. olukooto.

-egota (-egose) v.i. refl. become twisted/ bent. cf. geta.

be bent over.

bent; false, wrong, incorrect, cf. kyama,^obukyamu.