a- adv. near, nearby. Awampi walema ekk ere okubuuka. (prov.) lit. (To) a nearby place is where the big frog fails to jump. Too heavy for light work. cf. -mpi, kumpi.

cf. empisi.

e- (li/ma) large frog. (Awantu) awampi waalema ekkere okubuuka. (prov.) A short distance proved too much for the big frog to jump. Beware, you may be beaten by a trifle. (Asht.) Basammula ekkere ng'amazzi banywa. They splash away the big ugly frog but drink the water (it has been in). (Said o f hypocrites.) cf. ekikere.

o- adv. near, nearby; almost, nearly. followed by ne = near, close to. okumpi n'ennynmba ye, near his house. Kumpi kikakafu nti..., It is almost certain that... kumpimpi adv. rather near, quite close. cf. -mpi, wampi.

e- (n/n) hyena, kuggya mu mannyo ga mpisi, to save (someone who is in danger), lit. remove from the teeth of the hyena, cf. buyisi, Wampisi.

adv., kumpi, wampi, kinnya na mpindi.

abridge; shrink. cf. -yimpi, -mpi, kumpi, wampi.

mu bimpi, in short, in a nutshell, ab'emyaka emimpi, young people, cf. bimpimpi, kumpi, omumpi, wampi, -yimpi, yimpawal a.

-yimpi adj. short; brief (but only for nouns of the n/n class and plur. nouns of the lu/n class; for other nouns the stem is -mpi). ebbaluwa ennyimpi, short letteKs). Mumpi. He is short, cf. -mpi, yimpawala, kumpi, wampi.