o- adv. like a plantain, kuggya butooke, to calm down, become as meek as a lamb (of persons), lit. become cooked like a plantain, cf. ettooke.

e- (li/ma) bunch of plantains; in the plur. amatooke bunches of plantains; plantains. cf. obutooke, ekitooke.

nnyunze) V.TR. cut, cut down (PLANTAINS). ne mbasasira amasasi agaaba- yunja obutooke, and I fired bullets at them which cut them down like flies, {LIT. like plantains).