ekyuma ekisa.
obulo, omuwemba, empengere.
akakadde.
eggongolo.
olubengo; (upper) enso.
o- (bu/-) millet, cf. akalo.
o- (bu/-) gruel/porridge made from millet or banana meal, kuyoya busera, to be tired and hungry. Mpolampola, ayiisa obusera. (prov.) Very slowly, he cooks (good) porridge. Slow but sure.
o- (bu/-) meal of cassava, millet or corn (maize); thick porridge.
e-: (li/ma) millipede (in general); arch, a kind of millipede, cf. kagongolo.
a- (ka/bu) million.
a- (ka/bu) finger millet, cf. obulo.
a- (ka/bu) a hundred million; an almost infinitely high number.
a- (ka/bu) millions; an enormously large number, lit. that which is not easily counted, cf. ^bala.
a- with the -a of rel. reddish-brown, of the color of millet, enviiri ez'aka- wemba, reddish-brown hair. cf. omuwemba.
a- (ka/bu) ten million.
millet with a knife or sickle).
e- (li/ma) factory; workshop, ek- kolero ly'engoye, textile mill. Minista w'Obusuubuzi n'Amakolero, the Minister of Commerce and Industries, cf. kola.
e- (ki/bi) noose, something placed around the neck; fig. yoke, millstone, heavy burden, cf. yambika.
o- plur. emmengo (lu/n) lower millstone; grindstone; kind of large scale for weighing sacks of coffee, sugar, etc. okuteeka ... ku lubengo ne, to place ... on the scale with, i.e., to compare ... with. cf. benga, Mmengo.
a- plur. (li/ma) beer made from millet, particularly popular among the Itesot and other tribes of Northern Uganda.
e- (n/n) dry sorghum millet eaten when other food is scarce, empengere y'omusajja, a very strong man. Togayiranga mpengere mu kisenge. (prov.) Never pass judgment before you know the facts.
e- (n/n) green sorghum millet used as malt.
e- usually plur. (n/n) dregs/sediment of millet in beer. cf. ekikanja.
grind (grain, flour). Abasa n'abasa, baasisinkana mu Kijonjo. (prov,) Those who milled, they met at Kijonjo. This is the final statement in a story in which two thieves simultaneously outsmarted each other.
be milled/ ground.
be easy to mill. cf. omusi, enso.
v.tr. caus. cause to mill.
obulo) which has spilled cannot be scooped up. No crying over spilt milk. okuyoola inf. cf. omuyoolerero.
v.i. mill about restlessly; be in a state of commotion/confusion; mumble to one another; grumble at one another; quarrel, cf. akavuvuŋŋano.
o- (mu/ba) one who grinds grain, miller, cf. sa.
v.i. go or wander at random/blindly/aimlessly/in confusion; mill about.
0- (mu/ba) Ekika ky'Ababoobi, the Rainwater Clan (so called, because of their taboo against drinking rainwater or using it for any purpose whatsoever; the related word ekiboobi, is a kind of millipede, which is the second totem of the Clan).
o- (mu/mi) sorghum or millet used for making beer. cf. akawemba.
(la) kind of small insect found in millet.
move along (of a crowd) cf. enkumu.