ebbala, obulema, akabi, aka mogo, enkenyera.

be, okusoba.

a- (ka/bu) reluctance; misgiving; failure to be convinced; regret; defect, ng'asigaddemu akakenyera, and he was not quite convinced, cf. ^kenya, kenyera, enkenyera.

a- (ka/bu) blemish, stain, spot; defect; grudge, rancor. Omulungi tabulako kamogo. (prov.) A beautiful person does not lack a blemish. Nobody is perfect.

e- with the -a of rel. partly ripened (of fruit); not completely done (of food); light colored (of Africans), empafu ey'eki- bogwe, a partially ripened mpafu fruit. Abantu abasinga obungi mu bitundu bino balina obugunjufu bwa kibogwe. Most of the people in these areas have a defective/ poor culture.

e- (ki/bi) spot (on cloth); blemish, defect. Aleetedde eggwanga ekizigiro. He has brought shame on the country. cf. ziga.

in form; from the defective verb -ti, q.v. Used to introduce indirect (rarely direct) discourse, that; namely. Yagamba nti ajja kugenda. He said that he would go.

limp along; sputter along (of a defective car).

e- (li/ma) scar/crack on a defective gourd; malice, grudge, cf. vunda.

iron; correct (an examination); correct (a defect, an error), okugolola omukono, to raise one's hand, okugolola emimiro, to clear the throat.

(-lyose) also lyokka aux. verb (defective). It is used 1) after ne (the marker of the narrative tense) in the second of two.

the short end of the stick.

by p araly sis or a birth defect).

thus.

q. v.

-tya = -ti + a. -ti is a defective verb uninflected for tense but with the sub. prefixes. -tya is rendered how? in what manner? Bayimba batya? How do they sing? Kiri kitya? How is it? cf. ^-ti, -tyo.

like this, thus (in the manner already mentioned), -tyo is often preceded by bwe. Ekikere kibuuka (bwe) kityo. The frog jumps like that (as I have already told you), -tyo -tyo, not very well, so-so. Baali bayisibwa batyo batyo. They were not treated very well. cf. otyo, 1-ti, -tya.

-kolya adj. ignorant; inexperienced (esp. of dogs). Embwa enjizzi ezaala enkolya. (prov.) lit. A (good) hunting dog may give birth to a defective (one). Superior parents may have inferior offspring.