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e- (ki/bi) piece of carpentry work; piece of wooden furniture, cf. bajja.

e- (ki/bi) old wooden trough/vat. pej. of emmanvu, q.v.

e- (ki/bi) old, desicated tree; wooden handle; score in the game of mweso. Akyukira mu kiti nga mbazzi. He is likely to turn against people. He cannot be trusted. Twayogeramu ebiti bibiri n'Omuzungu. We spoke with the European for a short time. cf. lomuti.

e- (ki/bi) wooden handle, ekiyi- niggi ky'enkumbi, a hoe handle.

e- (ki/bi) wooden plank (e.g., one used to hold the door).

o- plur. emmambo (lu/n) wooden peg used for stretching a skin/hide; tent peg. kussaako mmambo (with amaaso as indirect object), to look/watch intently. Amaaso yagassaako emmambo. He watched intently, cf. bamba.

o- (lu/n) wooden framework for transporting objects; reeds woven together to make a kind of coarse wrapper.

o- (lu/n) wooden bowl; round flat papyrus basket; mold (for bricks).

ensuwa, omudumu, ensumbi; (wooden) ekyanzi.

ekijiiko; (wooden) akakaayi, omulawo; (of leaf) akawujjo.

o- (mu/mi) tree; wood, piece of wood; fig. child, young ‘sprout.' ekijiiko eky'omu- ti, a wooden spoon, omuti gw'essimu, telephone pole, emiti egya zaabu, gold bars, emiti gy'ettaala, light poles (in the streets), emiti okuwanikibwa ettawulo, towel racks. Emiti emito gye giggumiza ekibira. (prov.I The young people are the hope of the future, lit. young trees strengthen the forest, cf. akati, lekiti, oluti, olu- titti.

o- (mu/mi) wooden spatula, large wooden cooking spoon.

o- (mu/mi) wooden pestle, cf. sekula.

o- also omutalabanda (mu/mi) heavy wooden slipper or sandal.

o- (mu/ba) boor, unrefined person; clumsy person; stupid person. Omndembe akolera enkoko olunnyo ng'abaana basula wansi. /prov.) A stupid person builds a wooden frame for the chickens while his children sleep on the floor.

attributive and other relationships. The prefix attached to -a is determined by the class of the preceding noun, e.g., ebitabo ebya Mukasa, the books of Mukasa; entebe ey'omuti (ey' = eya), the chair of wood, the wooden chair. An important function of a is that of forming ordinals from cardinals, e.g., mu myaka omusanvu, in seven years; mu mwaka ogw omusanvu (ogw' = ogwa), in the seventh year.