gimu.

gimusa (-gimusizza) v.tr. caus. make fertile, fertilize; cause to grow well, ebigimusa, fertilizers. cf. -gimu, -gimufu, obugimu, ekigimusa.

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

o- (lu/n) dry unfertile land.

o- also lunnyo (lu/n) stretch of barren soil, olunnyunnyu, scattered area of barren soil, with the -a of rel. infertile. Ekitundu ekimu kigimu, ekirala nga kya lunnyu (or lunnyo). One area is fertile, whereas the other is barren, cf. omunnyu.

e- arch., with the -a of rel. infertile, barren (of soil).

v.i. be fertile/fruitful; flourish; fig. prosper.

fruitful, cf. gimuka, obugimu.

fruitful. The difference between -gimu and -gimufu is slight.