keerera, keesa, keeza, etc. see ^kya.

omugagga bifeekeera, an extremely rich person, cf. feekeera.

okukeera, okumunzula.

okussa omukka; b. hard, okuweevuuma, okuwejjawejja, okuteetera; b. irregularly, okuwookeera.

mumakya, mumatulutulu, munkeera; vide nsonoosi; be e., okukeera, okuzinduuka.

draw air into the nose; snuffle; snort, kufeesa bukula, to snort like a rhinoceros. cf. feekeera.

okwesiba, okwambala, okwebaga, okwefungiza, okukekeera.

e- (ki/bi) colloq. nightclub. cf. ^kya, keera.

o- adv. ceaselessly, all the time, okuyomba olutakera, to quarrel all the time. cf. Ikya, keera.

a- plur. (li/ma) liver of an edible rat (musu).

keera.

e- (n/n) described in previous dictionaries as: sternum, sternal cartilage; pit of the stomach; internal bodily part. It is now used almost always in a figurative sense: heart, soul, seat of the emotions. It occurs in hundreds of phrases and expressions of which the following is a sampling: mu ngeri ya kawanika mmeeme, in a frightening way. kwekuba mmeeme, to reconsider, emmeeme n'enfa, and my heart sank/I was utterly distressed. Nze emmeeme yangwa wala. I became very depressed. Otukubye wala emmeeme. You have really given us a scare. Emmeeme yamudda mu nteeko. He felt relieved, lit. his heart went back in place, ow'emmeeme etawaana amangu, one who is easily nauseated. Emmeeme entye- muse. 1 am terribly anxious/concerned/ shocked. Kino kyali ng'ekyawanula emmeeme ye. This seemed to relieve him/ calm him down. Emmeeme katale, ky'esiima ky'egula. (prov.) The heart is like going to market — it buys what it wants. Emmeeme gy'esula, ebigere gye bikeera. fprov.J Where the heart sleeps is where the feet- go in the morning, i.e., when you sleep with the intention of doing something, that is what you do. Emmeeme etefumba kigambo ekwo- geza munno ky'atagenda kwerabira. (prov.) lit. The heart which does not fashion well the spoken word makes you say what your friend will never forget. The spoken word can never be retracted.

e- (n/n) way of getting up early, as adv. early in the morning; the next morning; the next day, the following day. cf. keeta [appl. form of ^kya).

nnawookeera w'olutalo. a hideous war. nnawookeera w'obwavu, abject poverty.

e- adv. constantly, incessantly.

stay overnight with (sometimes implying inconvenience to the usual in habitants); spend the night preoccupied with (a present concern or future plan). Ku olwo iwasulirira kyayi. That night all we had to consume was tea. Yasulirira ku- keera kukima muwala we mu ssomero. He went to bed last night with the firm intention of getting up early and getting his daughter at the school.

mpeekedde) v.i. pant, breathe quickly, cf. wuukeera.

q.v.

mpuukedde) v.i. pant, breathe quickly, cf. weekeera, wookeera.

omwoyo or omutima (sometimes implied but not expressed); the personal object corresponds to the English subject, ne gunceekeera buto, and 1 started to worry again/become scared again.

daily, every day, every morning, cf. ^kya, keera, lukedde.

v.i. have the nose stuffed up; produce a sound similar to that characteristic of a congested nose. cf. bifeekeera; feesa.

handling). Omusango enkeera gunaabinuka buto.

v.i. rare gird oneself tightly.

v.i. appl. dawn (with obudde as subject); be early; do early; get up early; do all the time; let up (of rain). Obudde bukedde. It has dawned or The time has come (e.g., for an action that has been early in the morning. Nkeera ku mulimu. The first thing I do in the morning is go to work. Enkuba ekedde. The rain has let up. Akeera kunywa mwenge. He does nothing but drink beer.

stay up all night, okukeesa obudde, to make dawn come on. Amazina gaakeesezza obudde. The dancing went on all night/ until dawn. cf. kakedde, kikeererezi, kikeerezi, ekikeesa, ekyenkya, ^lukya, olutakera, lamakeera, amakva, enkeera, enkya, nnawankya.