a- (ka/bu) kind of shrub producing berries like coffee, cf. emmwanyi

e- (n/n) coffee berry; coffee in the natural state. Emmwanyi gye weesiga y'etebaamu mulamwa. (prov.) The coffee berry which you trust may not have a bean in it. Appearances are deceiving, kumira mmwanyi, to make a blood brotherhood pact (with someone), lit. to swallow coffee berries, cf. akamwanyimwanyi, omumwanyi.