n., ettutumu; evil r., olujeejeemo, emberebezi.
v., okubuulira, okuleeta ebigambo.
okugaana, okuwakana; c. report of death, okubikulula.
e- (ki/bi) [5a'., Pers.~\ print, type; printing press; printing establishment; road sign; poster; patch, ekyapa ky'ettaka, land title, ebyapa by'emmotoka, number plates of a car. kuwandiika mu kyapa, to print / as opposed to writing with normal handwriting). kukuba byapa, to patch up clothing; to repair a tire; to survey land. Lipoota eyo teyakubibwa mu kyapa. This report was not printed/published, cf. akaapa.
a- (n/n) \jfng. ] report.
ndozze) v.tr. tell, recount, narrate, okulojja omukwano, to declare/express one's love. Kye nnalaba mu ... ndi fa nkirojja. What I saw in ... I will remember as long as I live, lit. I will die recounting it. Amulojja temumala. He is really amazed at him (in either a good or bad sense). Buli omu alulojja bubwe. Everyone tells it/describes it from his own point of view (said when different people give different reports of the same incident).
a- plur. (ii/ma) news; report; information. olupapula lw'amawulire, newspaper, ow'amawulire (plur. ab'amawulire), journalist; newspaperman, reporter, eby'amawu- lire, journalism, cf. wulira, eggulire, munnamawulire.
a- adv. hastily, without proper consideration. Lipoota baagisembya matunnunsi. They supported the report without giving it proper consideration, cf. entunnunsi.
namely. It is similar in function, to nti (q.v.) but implies doubt and unc ertainty. Yagamba nti alijja. He said that he would come. Yagamba mbu alijja. He said that he would come (but I am not at all sure that he will), as an adv. it would seem that, apparently, one might get the impression, they say. Mbu omubbi bamukutte. Apparently (I think, I have heard) they have caught the thief.
reporter, newspaperman, cf. wulira, amawulire.
use as a point of departure. Note: This is a word for which a precise English equivalent is lacking. The following phrases illustrate the manner in which it may be used: okusinziira ku lipoota eyafuniddwa olunaku lw'eggulo, according to a report received yesterday. Okufa kwe kwasinziira ku butwa. His death was due to poisoning. Tulina ensonga ejinumu ddala kwe tusinziira ukukkiriza nga waiiwo... We have very firm reasons (from which we start) for believing that_ cf. -sinziivu, ekisinziiro
e- (li/ma) fame, renown; report. cf. tutumuka.
o- (mu/ba) one who goes to forage for food, one who travels about to obtain food either by purchase or in exchange for services.' omusasi w'amawulire, newspaper reporter, one who ferrets out news, omusasi w'ejinambo, gossip, gossiper. cf. saka.
v.tr. appl. report to; reveal to.
v.tr. conv. 2. contradict/deny the report of a death. Yatu- sanga tuli mu maziga n'atubikulula. He found us in tears and told us that the news of the death was untrue. cf. ekyebikiro.
o- (mu/ba) writer; secretary; scribe, clerk, omuwandiisi w'amawulire. reporter, journalist, cf. wandiika.
as an adj. such and such, ekintu gundi, something or other, such and such a thing. Leka tugambe nti omu- kunnaanya w'amawulire gundi asindise omusasi we ow'amawulire mu kifo gundi. Let us say that such and such a newspaper editor has sent his reporter in such and such a place. c(. gindi, ^-ndL
get to on one's own, go to/report to directly. Baasalawo okwetuukira bo bennyini basabe Minista. They decided to go to the minister themselves and ask (him).
-eyogera (-eyogedde) v.i. refl. give oneself away (by one's speech); report oneself; confess.