a musanvu.

etc. Mukasa kati abuukira kuli. Mukasa is now in his seventh heaven.

o- numer. (mu/mi) seven, with the -a of rel. seventh, omulundi ogw'omu- sanvu, the seventh time. cf. -sanvu.

attributive and other relationships. The prefix attached to -a is determined by the class of the preceding noun, e.g., ebitabo ebya Mukasa, the books of Mukasa; entebe ey'omuti (ey' = eya), the chair of wood, the wooden chair. An important function of a is that of forming ordinals from cardinals, e.g., mu myaka omusanvu, in seven years; mu mwaka ogw omusanvu (ogw' = ogwa), in the seventh year.