a- plur. (li/ma) news (which one person tells another as opposed to news in a newspaper), cf. gamba, eggambo, eki- gambo.

e- (li/ma) bad word; dirty word, amagambo ag'olumottole, indiscreet words. The grammatical plural amagambo (q.v.) does not have the augm. or pej. meaning of the singular, cf. gamba, ekigambo, amagambo.

amagezi; (news) amagambo, ebifaayo.

e- (ki/bi) word; saying; matter, affair. Si kigambo. It doesn't matter, cf. gamba, akagambo, amagambo.

to puff on/smoke a pipe, kukuumuula lumonde, to eat sweet potatoes, kukuumuula magambo, to pour out a torrent of loud and offensive words. Saalina ankuumuulira gu- bindi. I had no one wishing me bad luck, lit. puffing at a big, ugly pipe for me. cf. -kuumuufu.

o- with the -a of rel. blurted out, indiscreet, amagambo ag'olumoltole, indiscreet words, cf. mottola.

ebigambo, amagambo, ebifaayo;get n. of, okuwulirako.

ebifa, amagambo, amawulire.

ekigambo; (news) amagambo, ebifa; (order) ekiragiro; (promise) okulagaana.