eŋŋaano, omuwemba, obulo;

e ŋŋaano, kasooli; grain of corn, empeke; c. on toe, akasumba.

a- (ka/bu) stalk of ntula, njagi, q.v.; small cob of corn/maize (stripped of the grains), cf. ekikongoliro, kongola.

lit. it breaks the ax. cf. menya, embazzi.

a- (ka/bu) small seed; pill, tablet; grain, akaweke k'omusenyu, a grain of sand, enviiri ez'akaweke, curly/kinky hair. cf. empeke.

grain, etc. okulya kawuukuumi, colloq. to become pregnant. cf. wuukuuma.

e- (ki/bi) usually in plur. ebikanja. strains/dregs/residuum of beer, tea, coffee or something squeezed or strained; malt grains, cf. enkanja.

e- (ki/bi) [Lunyoro] bunch, bundle of grain

e- (n/n) grain, seed; pill. Bwe nnatuuka ku buliri nnabulwa yadde empeke y'otulo mu liiso. When I went to bed I didn't get a single wink of sleep, cf. akaweka.

e- (n/n) large mallet for the second beating of barkcloth; flail, heavy stick used to separate grains from husks, cf. 'vvuula. See ensaasi.

o- with the -a of rel. loose (of grains of coffee, etc.); unstrung (of the type of coins which had holes in the middle). emmwanyi ez'omwera, loose grains of coffee. ensimbi ez'omwera, unstrung coins.

e- (n/n) kind of tree with fine-grained wood, Mitragyne macrophylla; crippled/deformed child.

okuwalula, okukulula. p. up, okusimbula, okukuula, okuggyamu, okubambula, okujjira. p. down, okwabya, okumenya; (brickwork) okuzimbulula. p. to pieces, okumenya. p. out (hair, etc.), okumaanya, okusokomola. p. down creeper, okulandula. p. off (grains, beads), okuwulula. p. aside, okuwunjula. p. tight, okuleega.

grind (grain, flour). Abasa n'abasa, baasisinkana mu Kijonjo. (prov,) Those who milled, they met at Kijonjo. This is the final statement in a story in which two thieves simultaneously outsmarted each other.

v.tr. (harkcloth tree), okusubula, okuyimbula; (leaves) okumenyeza; (skin) okuyubula; (thatch) okusereekulula; (grain of maize) okukongola; (rib of plantain leaf) okuyubuluza.

o- (mu/mi) headache (in the forehead); migraine headache, omutwe omu- teezi, iden.

o- (mu/ba) one who grinds grain, miller, cf. sa.