eriggwa, empingula.
a maggwa.
o- (bu/-) side, direction, as an adv. sidewise, crosswise, horizontally, obukiika obwa kkono, north {lit. the left side), obukiika obwa ddyo, south {lit. the right side), kuba muntu bukiika, to have it in for someone, have a grudge against someone. Andi bukiika. He has it in for me or He is a thorn in my side. cf. ^kiika.
e- (ki/bi) kind of thorny tree.
e- (ki/bi) something which has been hooked fas in fishing); kind of shrub with hook-like thorns, cf. loba.
o- (lu/n) kind of small tree with sharp thorns. The poles formed from this tree are used in building, cf. omukanaga, enkanaga.
o- (lu/n) kind of thorny creeper used to bind reeds.
o- (lu/n) kind of thorny bush whose seeds (mpiki) are used in the game of mweso, q.v. cf. omuyiki.
o- (mu/mi) kind of thorny acacia tree.
o- (mu/mi) kind of thorny tree.
e- (n/n) lit. thorn-eater. Used in the proverb: Endyamaggwa y'emanya bw'egakyusa. lit. The thorn-eater knows how to digest them. One man's meat is another man's poison.
e- (n/n) kind of thorny tree with hardwood. Tajja kunkwasa ku nkanaga. He won't make me do that. He won't make me go to that extent, lit. cause me to grasp the thorny tree. cf. olukanaga, omukanaga.
e- (n/n) kind of plant of the genus Euphorbia resembling the cactus. It is of a fleshy structure and covered with small thorn s.
omugongo; (thorn) eriggwa.
e- (li/ma) thistle, Acanthus arboreus. Kasonsomolera nga eriggwa ly'ettovu etto. I like him (her) very, very much. I consider him a very good friend, lit. pricks like the thorn of a young thistle.
e- (li/ma) tip of ssenke grass (very sharp, like a thorn), cf. ekitutu.
a thorn); be lanced (of an abscess).
(-duumye) grow rapidly; spring up rapidly. Ensigo endala ne zigwa mu maggwa; amaggwa ne gaduuma ne gazitta. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and destroyed them. cf. omuduumi.
(la) kind of creeper with thorns found near marshes.
remove (a chigger, a thorn), okutundula envunza, to remove a chigger.
eriggwa (li/ma) thorn; spike; spine.
o- (mu/mi) kind of tree which produces red blossoms and has hook-like thorns on the trunk and branches, cf. ekiyirikiti.
o- (mu/mi) kind of thorny bush having heart-shaped leaves and bearing small fruits.