be, okusoba.

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.

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.

(-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.

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.