a muzizo; be t., okuzira.

o- (bu/-) disease or illness resulting from the violation of a taboo by eating one's totem.

boofu; go f., okufootooka, okubootaboota, okuleenya, okunyootoka.

a- (ka/bu) second totem of a clan. It differs from the first totem in that there is no taboo against eating it.

e- (ki/bi) evil, abomination; sin, wickedness; incest; something which is forbidden/taboo.

e- (n/h) lungfish (kind of long, eelshaped fish), Protoperus aethiopicus. Ekika ky'Emmamba, the Lungfish Clan. Omulya mmamba aba omu, n'avumaganya ekika. ft>rov.) He who ate the lungfish (and thereby violates a taboo) is one, (but) he brings the whole clan into disrepute. The evil of one can be the undoing of many. cf. aka- bamba.

be, okubootaboota.

make taboo for oneself.

v.i. desert, abscond, run away. cf. -kunguzi, amakungula, omukunguzi.

reject, refuse (e.g., food., a present); abhor, v.i. be taboo/ forbidden. Eddagala lino lizira omunnyu. This medicine cannot go together with/cannot be mixed with salt, ekibala ekizira, forbidden, fruit.

fruit); be soggy (of roads).

o- (mu/mi) totem, taboo, eky'omuziro, something which is taboo, specific food which cannot be eaten because of the traditions of the clan. cf. zira, omuzizo.

o- (mu/mi) taboo, prohibition imposed by custom or law. with the -a of rel. taboo, forbidden, cf. zira, omuziro.

0- (mu/ba) Ekika ky'Ababoobi, the Rainwater Clan (so called, because of their taboo against drinking rainwater or using it for any purpose whatsoever; the related word ekiboobi, is a kind of millipede, which is the second totem of the Clan).

o- (mu/ba) drunkard. Omutamiivu tabaaga mbwa. (prov.) A drunkard does not kill a dog (thus violating a taboo). Even a drunkard has moments of lucidity and truth, cf. tamiira.

cf. zira.