o- adv. like a mudfish, kugoba bumale, to arrive. Nzuuno ngobye bumale. Here 1 am. I have arrived, cf. emmale.

a- (ka/bu) young mudfish (mmale, q.v.). cf. ekirende.

a- (ka/bu) a small animal related to the otter which lives near water and is very skillful in catching mudfish (mmale); the second totem of the Otter Clan. Oddizza kaneene mmale. lit. You have given the otter a fish, i.e., you have given something (usually food) to someone who has a great hunger for it/who will appreciate it very much.

a- (ka/bu) small trap made of grass and used for catching mudfish (mmale). cf. sereekerera.

a- (ka/bu) conical fish trap for catching mudfish.

e- (ki/bi) young mudfish (mmale, q. v.). cf. akalende.

e- (n/n) mudfish, Clarias mossambicus. cf. obumale.

e- (n/n) kind of small mudfish resembling an eel in appearance. Ensimbi z'alina zivuluuja nga nsonzi mu mugga. He has a great abundance of money, lit. the money which he has teems like nsonzi in the river.

e- (n/n) holes in which nsonzi (mudfish) gather during the dry season and from which they may be extracted by hand.

emmale.