e'mmamba.

e- (li/ma) hole where lungfish hide during the dry season.

title of the chief of the Kabaka's canoes, admiral; title of a high- ranking chief of the Mmamba (Lungfish) Clan.

a- (ka/bu) small lungfish (emmamba).

e- (ki/bi) kind of shrub growing in water. The stems float and are used for spearing lungfish.

e- (n/h) lungfish (kind of long, eelshaped fish), Protoperus aethiopicus. Ekika ky'Emmamba, the Lungfish Clan. Omulya mmamba aba omu, n'avumaganya ekika. ft>rov.) He who ate the lungfish (and thereby violates a taboo) is one, (but) he brings the whole clan into disrepute. The evil of one can be the undoing of many. cf. aka- bamba.

o- (mu/mi) haft of a spear (with a ferrule) used as a walking stick; walking stick; sharpened stick used in killing lungfish (mmamba).

o- (mu/mi) = kabamba, a young lungfish (emmamba). It is the second totem of the Lungfish Clan.