e- (n/n) animal, cf. akasolo, ekisolo.

e- (n/n) cheek, okukuba ku nso- lobotto, to interrupt, refuse to permit (someone) to continue talking.

e- (n/n) kind of small poisonous ant; fig. sharp/stinging pain. Omumpi w'akoma w'akwata, ensolosozi eruma atudde. (prov.) A short person can only grasp as far as he can reach {lit. where he stops is where he grasps), the nsolozi bites (only) the person who is sitting down. A person who does what he can is not to be despised, cf. akasolosozi.

ensolo, ekisolo.

ensanafu, enkolooto, nnabe, wakka, ensolosozi, entalumbwa, akasagisagi, empawu, ekimomo, ekinyomo, ekirembwe, olukennembi, omunyama, munyeera; white ant, vide termite,

ensolo; also vide ensunu, entalaganya, enjobi, etc.

ensolo; int. of abuse, kafulu, kookolirooko.

adj. very large, huge, ensolo bukuda, a huge animal.

n., ettama; vide obusukuttu, ensolobotto; (impudence) ekyejo, eki tigi, e ttitimbuli; c. bone, akane nero, akabakko; suck the c., okwerya entama.

a- (ka/bu) small animal, small mammal, cf. ekisolo, ensolo.

a- (ka/bu) kind of small black ant with a sharp sting, cf. ensolosozi.

e- (ki/bi) animal, mammal. cf. ^-akasolo, ensolo.

e- var. of ensolobotto, q.v.

ensolosozi, obubalagaze.

o- (mu/ba) follower, adherent, abagoberezi b'ensolo, those who follow/|)ur- sue game (in a hunt), cf. goba, gobereza.

(high tone) particle used: 1) as a preposition meaning like. Alya nga nsolo. He eats like an animal. 2) before a relative form of the verb. Yalabika ng'afumba. She seemed to be cooking, lit. like one who cooks. This is identical in form with 1), differing only in English rendition. 3) in the sense of about, approximately, abantu nga makumi abiri, about twenty people. 4) in conjunction with bwe, corresponding to the English conjunctions how or as. Kola nga (nze) bwe nkola. Do as (lit. like how) I do. 5) os an initial element in an exclamatory clause. Nga bayimba bulungi! How well they sing! (E.O.A.)