enjovu, enguuli; e. hunter, omutujju.

ekisagazi.

endwadde eyenjovu, enjovu.

e- (1 i/m a) spicule, hairy projection on elephant grass (reeds) or sugarcane; hair on a caterpillar, okuseka n'eggimbi ku mwoyo, to laugh bitterly; to laugh maliciously.

omuyi zzi; elephant h., omutujju.

a- (ka/bu) small hand/arm; trunk of an elephant; consumption, tuberculosis. cf. omukono.

a- (ka/bu) lit. one-which-de- feats-the-elephant. a kind of small tree, Gardenia thurnbergia. It is so supple in nature that it bends instead of breaking.

a- (ka/bu) elephant shrew, cf. omusonso.

Mormyrus kannume. cf. ombegedde- (matono).

a- (ka/bu) small elephant; corn weevil, kind of very small insect with a proboscis resembling that of an elephant, cf. enjovu.

e- (ki/bi) something which cannot be used by the owner, a ‘white elephant;' reserve, something held in reserve. cf. linda.

e- (ki/bi) young sugarcane/ elephant grass.

e- (ki/bi) tall grass, elephant grass; reeds, cf. olusagazi.

e- (ki/bi) elephant-snout fish, Gnathonemus longibarbis.

e- (li/ma) elephant-snout fish, Gnathonemus longibarbis. See ekisuma.

e- (n/n) = ekisuma, q.v. elephant- snout fish, Gnathonemus longibarbis.

o- (lu/n) very tall grass, elephant grass, cf. ekisagazi.

o- (lu/n) hair of the tail of an elephant or giraffe; bracelet made from these hairs, additional meaning in plur. fly switch; fiber for the seams of a canoe.

a- plur. (li/ma) overgrown elephant grass which has fallen to the ground; half-burned reeds after a grass fire.

a- plur. (li/ma) place/spot which contains the remains of elephant grass or other grass after rats, rabbits, etc., have eaten, kusigala mu malye, to be deserted (e.g., a husband by a wife), cf. lya.

e- (n/n) huge elephant; something huge/monstrous; now most commonly walagi, a very strong liquor resembling gin.

e- (n/n) elephant, endwadde y'enjovu, elephantiasis. Ekika ky'Enjovu, the Elephant Clan. cf. lakayovu, omuyovu.

e- (n/n) cracked skin (on the feet). Ekireese ennungu okumera ku njovu..., What has made matters worse... lit., what has caused cracks to grow on the elephantiasis.

e- (n/n) kind of fish resembling the elephant-snout fish (kasulubbana). Ekika ky'Ensuma, the Nsuma Clan.

e- (li/ma) elephant tusk; ivory. cf. obusanga.

v. (of elephant), okwana.

enduli; (of elephant) omukono; (of corpse) ekiwuduwudu; (box) essanduuko.

erinnyo; (of elephant) essanga.

cf. omutujju.

o- (mu/ba) elephant hunter; government hunter; wild-game hunter; gunman. cf. tujjuka.

o- (mu/mi) white pith of the plantain stem, with the -a of rel. large and bulky, massive, omututumba gw'enjovu, a huge elephant.

crack (as the sound of rifles). okwana inf.

o- (mu/mi) elephant shrew. cf. lakasonso.