e- (n/n) savor, flavor (of food); sense, meaning, significance; truth, okuggwamu
e- plur. of olusa, q.v.
e- (n/n) calabash with a long neck and no bulge at the top.
e- (n/n) wild cherry; orange-yellow fruit of the musaali tree, q.v.
e- (n/n) envy, jealousy; regret; discontent, cf. saalirwa.
e- (n/n) grooved mallet used for beating out barkcloth.
e- (n/n) flour, okusiwa nsaano ku mazzi, to add flour to water, i.e., to waste one's breath/time; to be too little/insignificant.
e- (n/n) enjoka ensaanuusi, colic, abdominal pains.
e- (n/n) kind of rattle used as a musical instrument consisting of a small dried gourd in which stones or seeds have been placed. It is associated with the native religious rites (pre-Christian).
e- (n/n) mallet with large grooves used for the first beating of barkcloth. See empuuzo.
e- (n/n) as an attributive to another noun barren (of certain animals), ente ensaata, barren cow(s). cf. saatawala.
e- (n/n) kind of tree with walnut- colored wood, Xylopia eminii.
e- (n/n) cooking pot (so named because when people used to go foraging for food [cf. saka] they took along a pot in which to put food), cf. saka, 1 akasaka.
c- (u/n) day of clear weather during the rainy season.
e- (n/n) (financial) allowance.
e- (n/n) root of the water lily eaten in time of famine.
e- (n/n) cutting, way of cutting; judgment, decision, cf. sala.
e- (n/n) decision, cf. sala.
e- (n/n) cup made of half a gourd for keeping oil or butter.
e- (n/n) something which has been cut; a cut (e.g., of meat), cf. sala.
adj. usually following a noun of time, final, last; decisive, critical; long awaited. Omwezi guno ye nsalesale ku bakozi abagtvira. This month is the deadline for foreign workers. Leero ye nsalesale. Today is the final day or Today is the day that has long been awaited.
e- (n/n) cracks and sores on the bottom of the feet, esp. between the toes. cf. sala.
e- (n/n) limit; border, boundary, frontier. cf. sala.
e- (n/n) meat.
Kobus defassa.
e- (n/n) field after harvest or near the end of harvest.
e- (n/n) kind of reddish-brown soldier ant which bites fiercely.
e- (n/n) jerboa, also called jumping rat, kangaroo rat (see akayozi); kind of silkworm which makes cocoons on mulberry trees, cf. somba, ekyuma.
e- (n/n) prow, the forward part of a boat or ship.
e- (n/n) border of a mat. cf. sandagga.
e- (n/n) kind of bird about the size of a sparrow.
e- (n/n) time, period, interval, mu nsangi ezo, in these times, during this period.
e- (n/n) swelling of a gland.
e- (n/n) flow of blood, spurt of blood.
e- plur. of olusansa, q.v.
e- (n/n) upper branch of a tree; topmost branch of a tree. cf. essanso.
e- numer. seventy, with the -a of rel. seventieth, omulundi ogw'ensanvu, the seventieth time. cf. -sanvu.
e- (n/n) peanut sauce/soup.
e- (n/n) turmoil, uproar, commotion, disturbance; uprising.
e- (n/n) spark, ensasi z'omuliro, sparks of fire. cf. sasa.
e- (n/n) kind of bird found near cattle, tick bird.
e- (n/n) manner/way in which (people) are made to pay. cf. sasula.
e- (n/n) bag; handbag; pouch; sack; pocket; fund, sum of money set apart for a specific objective, ensawo ey'omu ngalo, woman's pocketbook; briefcase, kukwatira nsawo, to be about equal. Mu bugagga Mukasa akwatira Musoke ensawo. Mukasa is about as rich as Musoke. cf. omusawo.
v., okutiisa, okukanga; be alarmed, okutya, okwesansabaga.
ensanafu, enkolooto, nnabe, wakka, ensolosozi, entalumbwa, akasagisagi, empawu, ekimomo, ekinyomo, ekirembwe, olukennembi, omunyama, munyeera; white ant, vide termite,
obuddukiro; (for insane) ennyumba ya balalu.
be on the point of burning (of food); produce a burning sensation. Obulago bum- babirira. I have a burning sensation in the throat.
kalu, a lunnyo; (female animals) gumba, ensaata; also vide olukumakuma, enkumba, olunnyo; become b., okusajja kula, okusaatawala.
e-: kugwa bbooci ng'ensawo za kasooli, to sit in a relaxed position, to fall in a heap (lit. like sacks of com).
mmwe be nsasudde, you whom I have paid.
okulagira. b. farewell, okusiibula. made a b., okulamula. b. high, okukansa.
ensalo, embibi, enkingi, omuzibo; (of mat) olusandaggo; (of cloth) olukugiro.
ensalo, embibi, enkingi, empero.
obulumba, ensanda.
o- (bu/- ) sudden tingling pain; smarting sensation; sting; hurt. cf. bala-
O- pr.n. (n/n) France.
o- (bu/-) lit. & fig. craziness, madness, insanity, cf. -lalu, lauka.
o- (bu/-) lit. & fig- craziness, insanity, daftness, cf. eddogojjo, aka- logojjo, logojjana.
o- (bu/-) medical science, medicine. obusawo bw'ebisolo, veterinary science, cf. omusawo, ensawo; sawula.
o- plur. of akatonsa, q.v.
ekita, endeku, empaawo, eŋŋunda, ensaabo; vide gourd
eryato, emmanvu, akaduli; for parts of canoe, vide eggwamba, ebbasi, akasenso, ekigambira, ekirima, oluwamba, oluwero, empumi, omugonjo, endagire, endijjo, endigo, ensanda, ensinga, entabiro.
olutata, olugenderezo, olunye, kasukunsalo.
wild, ensaali; c. tree, musaali.
kakenge, enjoka enkalu, enjoka ensaanuusi.
okugatta, okuliwa, okugerula, okusowerera.
okugatta.
ekikankano; have convulsions, okusansagala.
e- no plur. (li/ma) madness, craziness, insanity; extreme folly, kugwa ddalu, to go mad. cf. -lalu.
be, okwesansabaga; (persons) okwesunsulika.