okulima.

e- plur. (ki/bi) crops, lit. (things) which are cultivated, cf. lima.

a-: ekyalo ekigudde akaleka, a village having many extensive, well-cultivated and fertile banana gardens.

e- (ki/bi) overgrown piece of land, land that is uncultivable or difficult to cultivate.

e- (ki/bi) that which is cultivated, crop, ebirime ebivaamu ensimbi, cash crops, akatale k'ebirime, produce market. cf. lima.

nnimye) v.i. & tr. cultivate, farm, dig; fig. backbite, slander behind one's back, eby'okulima, agriculture.

be cultivated, etc.

limisa (-limisizza) v.tr. caus. 1 & 2 cause to cultivate; cultivate by means of. okulimisa ebyuma, to use machinery in farming. cf. obulime, obulimi, obulimiro, eddimwa, akalimiro, ekirime, ennima, ennimiro, ennimisa.

o- plur. empangi (lu/n) long ditch; furrow, in the plur. plot of ground in the process of cultivation, oluwangiwangi, border of cultivated area.

e-: okukuba endobo, to kick with the leg in wrestling or football, okwekuba endobo, to contradict oneself, okukuba ennanda endobo, to cultivate.

e-: (emmere) ennimire, (food) cultivated by (others). Olya nnimire. You eat food cultivated by others (a very insulting expression, implying that the wife to whom it is addressed is lazy and cannot grow her own food), cf. lima, limira.

e- (n/n) garden, cultivated plot. cf. lima, akalimiro.

e- (n/n) bush, jungle, uncultivated land.

e- (li/ma) [Si«. ] plantation, farm, large garden, plot of cultivated ground.

dig.

e- (li/ma) uncultivated land; grazing land, pasture; meadow; shore, land (as opposed to a body of water), okugenda ku

ensiko, ettale; be u., okuzika.

okukunsa olubimbi, to dig up/cultivate a large patch of ground, okukunsa omulimu, to do a job. cf. ^kikunta, ^kunnunta.

pursue; fire (from a job), kufuumuula misinde, to pursue/chase closely, kufuumuula kagaali, to ride a bicycle at a very fast rate, kwefuumuula bwefuumuuzi, to try to cultivate but with no results; to putter around ineffectively. Talima yeefuumuula. He isn't just cultivating but doing a great job of it. He is an expert cultivator. cf. kafuumuuko; tuumuuka.

to doze, doze off, lit. cut logs, kutema lu- wenda, to cut a path; to mark the end of one's own land; fig. to be a pioneer, a pathfinder. kutema lubimbi, to cultivate intensively/a great deal, kutema mulanga or kutema kiwoobe, to wail loudly, kutema ka- kule or kutema kalali, to burst out laughing, kutema bikata, to hoe/ridge potatoes, kutema mwenge, to cut bananas for making beer, kukatema muntu, tell someone very bad or shocking news, lit. cut (laughter, implied by ka = akakuie) from a person. Yakantema. He told me something that had a shocking effect on me. kutema lizzi, to swim, kutema bigambo, to make unfounded statements.

o- (mu/mi) cultivated field, cultivated plot, garden.

v.i. & tr. do carelessly; clear land/cultivate quickly and in a careless manner.

ne wattira. (prov.) You cultivate a small area and it is well cared for. It is better to be successful in a small job than a failure in a big one.

okuyiribya enkumbi, to cultivate very quickly, t>ku- yiribya emisinde, to chase/pursue.

etc.

weed; fig. backbite, slander.

has the following auxiliary functions: 1) kye + va (with the appropriate personal and tense prefixes) + a primary verb express an action or state resulting from a cause (rendered in English by therefore, that is why, that is the reason). Kitange mu- lwadde, kye nva sigenda kulima. My father is ill; that is why I do not go to cultivate. 2) Before the infinitive of another verb va may express recently completed action. Tuva kulima. We have just come from digging. Nva kulya. I have just eaten. 3) The infinitive okuva is equivalent to the English prep, from (referring to either time or space), okuva leero okutuuka mu mwezi ogujja, from today until next month, okuva e Mombasa okutunka e Nairobi, from Mombasa to Nairobi. va is frequently used with enclitics (-wo,