usually kootakoota (-koose- koose) v.i. (redup.) be bent/bent over; walk with a stoop, okukootakoota mu ga lumonde, lit. to bend over in the sweet- potato leaves (ga implies malagala, leaves), i.e., to try to hide, but to be found out; to want to do something but to fail because of the wrong approach/technique.

v.tr. irritate, itch (of the throat). Obulago bunkoota. My throat itches. Omukazi ono yalina eyamukoota. There was somebody whom this woman liked very much. cf. olukoota.