e- (li/ma) stone, brick or ball of clay used for cooking. Three of these are usually arranged in the form of a triangle. The pot is placed on top and the firewood is inserted through the openings at the sides, amasiga is now also used to designate the cooking area of a stove or oven, essiga is also the term applied to the largest subdivision of a clan. cf. obusiga.

o- adv. kuiuula busiga, to sit for a long time wakeful; to stay by the hearth, busiga is also the plural o/kasiga, small cooking stone, cf. essiga.

essiga;

a- (ka/bu) lit. it cools the cooking stones, the time from about 9:30 P.M. to midnight, cf. ^wola, woza, essiga.

e- (ki/bi) clan; family; type, kind; form. t or sub-divisions of the clan see ~essiga, omutuba and olunyiriri.

o- (lu/n) line; row; verse of the Bible; smallest subdivision of a clan, okusimba olunyiriri, to line up, form a line. cf. akanyiriri. See also ekika, lessiga, omutuba.

olunyiriri, lessiga.

(la) also kassigala (ka/bu) [Eng.] cigarette.

o- (mu/ba) head of a clan (ekika) or of any of the sub-divisions of a clan (essiga, omutuba, olunyiriri). The bataka formerly possessed large areas of land, kuba mutaka (mu kifo), to be an old-timer/ a long-time resident (in a place). Paapa mutaka mu Butuluki. The Pope has already arrived in Turkey, cf. ttaka, takawala.