e- (n/n) seeds of the raffia palm. cf. ^ekibo.

e- (n/n) kind of small white termite. cf. olubobya.

e- (n/n) cabbage.

e- (n/n) buffalo. Ekika ky'Embogo, the Buffalo Clan. cf. kabogo.

e- (n/n) disagreement, misunderstanding; dispute; quarrel, cf. bojja, bojjana.

e- (n/n) penis.

e- (n/n) tail of an animal; whisk.

e- (n/n) kind of edible plant, resembling spinach but with smaller leaves. It cooks very rapidly, hence the following idiomatic usage: Embooge teyabuguma nga tutuuse. We arrived in no time at all, lit. the mbooge had not even become warm.

e- also embooseera (n/n) as an attribute ripe (of fruit); fig. beautiful (e.g., of girls), emboosa y'omuyembe, a beautifully ripe mango, omuwala emboosa, a beautiful girl. cf. booseera.

e- (n/n) conversation, talk; account, narration; essay. Emboozi yagwa aroake- rendu. The conversation went very smoothly. They (we, you) had a very fine convex sation. cf. oluboozi.

e- (n/n) kind of catfish = ssemu- tundu, q. v.

e- (n/n) object held as security for the payment of a debt. cf. bowa, -bowe.

n., ekikolwa, ekigambo.

ekigambo, ensonga.

oluyombo, okukaayana.

ensiriba, ejjembe, akawambo, olusinga.

essanduuko; (vessel) ekyombo.

ekintu; (of creed) ennyingo; (of religion) okigambo ky'eddiini.

e- (li/ma) hollow-stemmed perennial mountain bamboo, Arundinaria alpina. It is black in color as opposed to nkaawo which is yellow.

e- no plur. (li/ma) kind of climbing plant used in native medicine to cure measles, fever, etc. cf. ekibombo.

omwenge, amalwa; vide enkenku, ekibombo, omuyiiro, enkaatu, entwere, essuumwa.

obulimbo.

okuvvoola, okuteefula ebigambo.

omubiri; (dead) omulambo; (person) omuntu; (headless) ekiwuduwudu; (company) ekibiina.

bojjana (-bojjanye) v.i. recip. peck one another; quarrel with one another. cf. embojjanyi, nnamwebozzi; bojjogola.

mmombose) v.i. roam about, wander, wander about, cf. emmotnboze.

omubombl; -ebomboola.

be ou'^e rinp have just the right degree of ripeness (of fruit, etc.). cf. emboosa, embooseera.

rare ~ boyaana Omutwe nzenna gumboyonga. My head is swimming, cf. boya.

ekituli, eddibu; (quarrel) oluyombo; make a b., okumenya.

embogo.

o- (bu/-) subjection, forced rule, colonialism, mu biseera by'obufuge, in colonial days. cf. fuga. bufumbo, o- (bu/-) marriage, the marital state, obufumbo obw'ekitala, civil marriage, cf. fumba, fumbirwa.

o- (bu/-) fluffy substance resembling cotton often used for stuffing mattresses and pillows; the plant from which this substanceis obtained, cf. olufumbo.

o- (bu/) bad smell.

o- (bu/-) birdlime; glue.

etc. ne bitubulira ku matama, and we were at a loss for something to say, lit. they (ebigambo, words, implied) disappeared from our cheeks.

o- see akalombolombo.

enjole; (corn) omuganda, ekinywa, omuvumbo; (leaves) ekikoola; (fruit) ekirimba; (bananas) enkota, ekiwagu, ekisinja, oluwagala.

o-: mu bigambo by'obuuma, in money matters, obuuma is the plur. of 2akuuma, the dim. of ekyuma, q.v. for further meanings.

omulambo, omubiri.

I don't, si musango, si kigambo, sifaayo.

omulambo, omutulumbi.

okulonda, okusiima; (pick out) okulondamu, okweroboza, okwebonanya; c. from, okwawulula; c. one's words, okuwoomesa emboozi.

ekigambo.

n., ekirimba, ekivumbo, eki wagu.

v., okukuŋŋaanya, okukukumba, okukunga; (tribute) okusolooza; (market dues) okuwooza; (all sorts) okuyombolereza; (poles) okusonda; (earth, etc.) okuyoola.

n., okwemulugunya, enso nga, ekigambo; (illness) endwadde.

n.t ekigambo, omusango, ensonga; vide ttembere.

empaka, oluyombo.

emboozi, okunyumya.

a mboozi.

omulambo, omutulumbi; (headless) ekiwuduwudu.

pamba; (thread) ewuzl; silk c., obufumbo.

v.i., okuyigaana, okukumuka, okusombooka; be crowded, okufembekera, okugoggottera.

ceremonial staff handed by the Kabaka to the Kati- kkiro (Prime Minister) as a symbol of his office. cf. lamula.

e- (li/ma) front of a house, courtyard; originally the narrow stretch connecting the road and the courtyard.

e- plur. amalenge (li/ma) small wind instrument, whistle, reed pipe made of bamboo; measure for a charge of gunpowder. Enjala wano efuuwa n'ama lenge. The hunger here is beyond belief, lit. is blowing whistles, cf. ^akalenge, kirenge, orau- lenge. See also fuuwa and fuuyira.

e- plur. amalimbo (li/ma) big lie; great deceit, cf. limba.

e- plur. amalumambogo (li/ma) gadfly, lit. bites (luma ) the buffalo (m bo go).

ekyombo.

ekitiibwa, obukulu, essiimbo.

oluyombo, empaka.

n., emboozi, okubuulira.

okuzingulula, okutuggulula, okulambulula, okugombolola.

okwesalamu, ennyombo.

okubowa, okukwata mbowe.

okugattululwa mubufumbo.

amaanyi mubigambo.

ogezi, a maanyi mubigambo; vide omunuza.

okugumya omwoyo.