mpozzi.

e- (ki/bi) old, desicated tree; wooden handle; score in the game of mweso. Akyukira mu kiti nga mbazzi. He is likely to turn against people. He cannot be trusted. Twayogeramu ebiti bibiri n'Omuzungu. We spoke with the European for a short time. cf. lomuti.

mjagadde) v.tr. want, desire; love; like; as aux. be about to, be on the point of, (to) almost... Okutya kwaya- gala okun.Simla eddalu. Fear almost drove me mad. Enkuba eyagala kutonnya. It is likely to rain.

nnyombye) v.i. quarrel; speak angrily. W'ova toyombye w'otera okudda. (prov,) lit. Where you leave without having quarreled is where you are likely to return. okuyomba inf.

omukazi owa nnabuguma, a woman who appears likely to abort, cf. buguma.

(la) kind of bitter cassava which often makes people giddy; fig• something likely to cause trouble/danger.

adv. probably; very likely; it just may be; perhaps.

nga bwe is usually rendered as. Nga bwe batali wano, sirowooza nit tukyabalabye. As they are not here, I do not think we are likely to see them, ne bwe = although, even if. Sandi- genze Entebbe omwami ne bwe yandintu- myeyo. 1 would not have gone to Entebbe even if the master had sent me. bwe -ti, like this; bwe -tyo, like that. Kibuuka bwe kiti. It jumps like this. Toyogera bw'otyo. Don't talk like that. The rel. adv. bwe must not be confused with the copula bwe, is/are; the poss. adj. bwe his/her; or the rel. pron. bwe which. The last three are used only in association with nouns whose class prefix is bu-.

nnansangwamu: sinnaana.

to trust a person who is likely to prove unreliable.