ekikere, akalenga, enkonga.

flat sound; croak (as a frog).

flat sound; croak (as a frog).

a- (ka/bu) tree frog.

a- (ka/bu) kind of small green frog.

e- (ki/bi) frog; toad. cf. ekkere.

e- (li/ma) large frog. (Awantu) awampi waalema ekkere okubuuka. (prov.) A short distance proved too much for the big frog to jump. Beware, you may be beaten by a trifle. (Asht.) Basammula ekkere ng'amazzi banywa. They splash away the big ugly frog but drink the water (it has been in). (Said o f hypocrites.) cf. ekikere.

play, okuzannya omuza nnyo ogw'okuwalampa abantu.

ndoose) v.i., also lookalooka (-looseloose) v.i. redup. pulsate in the throat (as a frog, lizard, chicken); be out of hrpath nant ffacn

a- adv. descriptive of manner of jumping. okubuuka amaeco, to jump completely up with both (or all) feet, as a frog. cf. ccoppa.

e- (n/n) kind of small ground frog which discharges an offensive secretion "'hen threatened.

.e- (n/n) kind of frog.

climb up; seize, take possession of. Ki ekimutembye? What has gotten into him? Ebyo byonna byantemba ku mutwe. All these things kept going through my mind. Nnyinimu w'ataba, ebikere bitemba enju. (prov.) When the owner is not present, the frogs take over the house. When the cat is away, etc. Nnamusanze kimutembye. I found him in a bad mood, lit. a bad spirit (kizimu is implied by ki-) had taken possession of him.

a- adv. near, nearby. Awampi walema ekk ere okubuuka. (prov.) lit. (To) a nearby place is where the big frog fails to jump. Too heavy for light work. cf. -mpi, kumpi.

v.i. stand/rise to one's feet with effort/in a clumsy manner; recover (from an illness); make a dull/flat sound; croak (as a frog).

v.i. appl. 2 spend the entire day doing; fast continually. Nga ssente bwe zitakyalabika kati tusiibirira muwogo. Since money is no longer available, we now live on cassava. Basiibirira mazzi nga nkere. They go hungry, lit. spend the whole day on water like frogs.

ekikere kyayaza ennyama ku mutwe. (prov.) That which is inedible does not fail to become more abundant, the the frog has more flesh on the head (than elsewhere). Perhaps = the best things are the least abundant. okwala inf.

e- (n/n) kind of mushroom, lit. the drum (ŋŋoma) of the frog (kikere).

crack (as the sound of rifles). okwana inf.

v.i. croak in concert (of frogs); make a croaking noise (of a group of people). okwanyaaga inf.

1 nti.

like this, thus (in the manner already mentioned), -tyo is often preceded by bwe. Ekikere kibuuka (bwe) kityo. The frog jumps like that (as I have already told you), -tyo -tyo, not very well, so-so. Baali bayisibwa batyo batyo. They were not treated very well. cf. otyo, 1-ti, -tya.