okutonda.
e- (ki/bi) created thing, created being, creature, cf. tonda, omutonde.
v., okukola; (create) okutonda; (compel) okuwaliriza, okukaka; also the c. forms of verbs. m. a bed, okwala ekitanda. m. up a number, okuweza. m. way, okwesega, okusegulira. m. off, okudduka, okusenguka. m. time, vide okwerekereza. m. a profit, okuviisa amagoba, okugoba. m. sail, okuwanika amatanga.
overdo things; try to create an impression, okukola eby'akatiwuuko, to act/do things in an exaggerated way. -to adj. young, not fully grown; small, omwezi omuto, the new moon, omulamuzi omuto, junior judge, -toototo, rather young. Omusajja yalina abaana be basatu nga batoototo. The man had three children, (all) rather young, kuluyita luto, to treat lightly, consider of no consequence, call it (-lu- implies lutalo, battle) small. Sisobola kuluyita luto. 1 cannot say that it is a matter of small consequence, cf. toowa, toowala, obuto, ekilo, oluto, omuto; (be) ttottololo.
v.tr. create. Sandilutonze. I would not have escaped. I would not have lived to tell the tale.
obutonde, obutonzi, Kalonda, ekitonde, omutonde, omutonzi.
njiiye) v.tr. invent, originate, create; design; devise; compose (music). okuyiiya amagezi, to devise a plan, find a way of proceeding. Okuyiiyayiiya kwe kwali kuyitirivu. His ingenuity was very gre at.
o- (mu/ba) one who is created, human creature, human being, cf. tonda.
do on one's own; be the first to (do, etc.). Nnali saagala kumubinikako buzito butaali bwe- bangire. I did not want to saddle him with burdens which were not his own/which really did not concern him. ebibi ebye- bangire, personal sins, sins due entirely to one's own actions.
devised; created; made up; false, ebimu ku biyiiye bya Mw.Bugembe, some of the creations/compositions/poems of Mr. Bugembe. cf. yiiya.