v., okuseeyeeya, okuyenjeera, okubbulukuka, okutengejja.
o- plur. (ka/bu) bits and pieces of dried leaves floating in drinking, water/ tea/mubisi, etc.; dregs or sediment in any beverage.
set (a boat or canoe) afloat.
a- (ka/bu) chaff of malt floating on fermenting beer, okwemala akakya, to drink to excess.
soot, small particles of dust that float in the air. cf. munyale.
e- (ki/bi) sudd, mass of floating vegetation which obstructs the course of a river (esp. the Nile).
e- (ki/bi) floating vegetable matter that forms obstructive masses in a body of water.
e- (ki/bi) scum/debris floating on a liquid.
e- (ki/bi) kind of shrub growing in water. The stems float and are used for spearing lungfish.
o- (lu/n) kind of floating plant.
float; i glide, soar; cruise along (as a car).
etc. ekikoba ekiseeyeeyesa omuntu ng'agudde mu mazzi, a large belt which enables a person who has fallen in the water to float, life preserver. cf. sooyooya.
float around; swav from to side- move cibcut c-im lessly. Yabotola ekyali kinteeyenga ku mwoyo. He expressed openly what I had been thinking about, lit. what had been floating in my soul.
nnyengeese) v.i. float; move to and fro, wander about. okuyengeeta inf.
etc. cf. yengeetana.
nnyenze) v.i. totter, reel; float about, drift; move about aimlessly, roam around okuyenja inf.
v.i. appl. 2 continually float about; keep wandering around.
make an effort, work hard, struggle.
bother. cf. -tengezzi, kitengejja.
v.i. come to the surface; rise up (in a liquid); float.
-etetevvula (-etetevvudde) v.i. refl. gorge oneself. float