Upload Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary (since 2016).txt

Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary (since 2016).txt

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 Introduction:
-Created painstakingly from scratch with gritty nerves on the 3rd Agofe's 90th birthday afternoon (Saturday 26th November 2016) after a South Sudanese Acholi-Madi in Tennessee, USA (named Suzy Abdelfarag [aka Mamur, Akema] who spoke fluent Arabic, but disliked the upper Arabian Sudanese who tormented her people before independence) asked me via Facebook to teach her Luganda (so that she could understand her favourite Ugandan musicians eg Jackie Chandiru and Mowzey Radio). Dismissively, she wanted more than just the basic words I started the lessons with, but while checking out a Luganda Dictionary at www.archive.org, I literally snapped because of what I had noticed about self-learning versus waiting for the teacher to teach during my school career. Reinforced every year, Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary is where the Old and New meet (like Synthetic Imagination). It's a Lugbara Language Museum for historical, scientific and cultural research: Use Ctrl + F (key combination) or add this one-page electronic dictionary as a file to an AI chatbot to swiftly find any words you want! I'm only human and apologise in advance for any mistakes: I've cleaned thousands of errors by the way (realised a lot spiritually while proofreading). I was even tempted to delete all the data, but resilience convinced me to keep editing; therefore corrections and suggestions are always welcome through WhatsApp: +256-781-345712 or Email: aikoug@gmail.com! I ask the Holy Spirit to guide me in the name of JESUS (like Tower of Babel language multiplication by YHWH in Genesis 11 and Galileans filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost amazingly speaking other languages in Acts 2:1-13)! Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that: JESUS Christ is Lord [YESU Kurisito ni Opi] (Philippians 2:10-11)!
+Created painstakingly from scratch with gritty nerves on the 3rd Agofe's 90th birthday afternoon (Saturday 26th November 2016) after a South Sudanese Acholi-Madi in Tennessee, USA (named Suzy Abdelfarag [aka Mamur, Akema] who spoke fluent Arabic) asked me via Facebook to teach her Luganda (so that she could understand her favourite Ugandan musicians eg Jackie Chandiru and Mowzey Radio). Dismissively, she wanted more than just the basic words I started the lessons with, but while checking out a Luganda Dictionary at www.archive.org, I literally snapped because of what I had noticed about self-learning versus waiting for the teacher to teach during my school career. Reinforced every year, Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary is where the Old and New meet (like Synthetic Imagination). It's a Lugbara Language Museum for historical, scientific and cultural research: Use Ctrl + F (key combination) or add this one-page electronic dictionary as a file to an AI chatbot to swiftly find any words you want! I'm only human and apologise in advance for any mistakes: I've cleaned thousands of errors by the way (realised a lot spiritually while proofreading). I was even tempted to delete all the data, but resilience convinced me to keep editing; therefore corrections and suggestions are always welcome through WhatsApp: +256-781-345712 or Email: aikoug@gmail.com! I ask the Holy Spirit to guide me in the name of JESUS (like Tower of Babel language multiplication by YHWH in Genesis 11 and Galileans filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost amazingly speaking other languages in Acts 2:1-13)! Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that: JESUS Christ is Lord [YESU Kurisito ni Opi] (Philippians 2:10-11)!
 
 Pronunciation Parameters:
 In Lugbara phonology, every Lugbara word ends with one of the five vowels eg nyanya = tomato; mucele = rice; karoti = carrot; ovakedo = avocado; osu = bean. Letters Q [Kaya] and X [Ekisa, Alamakanda in Aringa dialect] are not used (meaning only 24 can do on a keyboard), but four unique ones with an apostrophe are added: 'B, 'D, 'W and 'Y (which all sound like putting H after them though personal names omit the apostrophe). The 28 letters in the Simplified Lugbara Alphabet sound like this: Ah, Ba, Bha, Cha, Da, Dha, Eh, Fa, Ga, Ha, Ii (as in Israel), Ja, Ka, La, Ma, Na, Oh, Pa, Ra, Sa, Ta, Uw (as in yoUth), Va, Wa, Wha, Ya, Yha, Za. Since nursery in Jinja (Busoga), I was confusingly taught to recite English vowels separately in a different acoustic compared to the vowels in the ABC to Z(ed) rhyme, but later realised that the former sequence was exactly how Lugbara vowels sound; the standard consonant clusters in Lugbara are: DR, HW, MB, MV, ND, NDR, NJ, NG, NY, NZ and TR. Other diphthong clusters (or noteworthy phonetics) include the following:
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 mawa (n) flower (also mawua) eg E ka 'ba iri ne leta-a, i'be mawa! = When you see two lovers, throw flowers! [Indian Proverb]
 
-Maye! (interj) Oh my, Oh no, I'm sorry!
+Maye! (interj) Oh my, Oh no, I'm sorry! (Bambi in Luganda)
 
 mayuni (n) yam (also ayu, gurunya, girinya, likinya) eg Mayokia ni mayuni le. = Mayokia is like a yam.
 
@@ -5317,7 +5317,7 @@ ombuta (n) jump, hopping (also ombuza)
 
 omgbo (n) size, volume
 
-omi (v) press
+omi (v) press; brain, mind, inner head eg R. Keli kini: O'duko yi ma omi-a 'yo mani ma imu Kanisa-a. = R. Kelly said: Voices in my head be telling me to come to Church.
 
 Omi (n) village on Koboko Highway after Enyau River
 
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 Lugbara-English (Crossovers)
-Some Lugbara words have the same spelling as English, but mean totally different things eg: a, ace, agate, agile, ago, aka, ale, alibi, alone, amaze, animate, ape, are, aria, aroma, asia, awe, azalea, be, bile, do, ego, era, go, ice, mile, mini, one, so, to, vile, we, etc...
+Some Lugbara words have the same spelling as English, but mean totally different things eg: a, ace, agate, agile, ago, aka, ale, alibi, alone, amaze, animate, ape, are, aria, aroma, asia, awe, azalea, be, bile, do, ego, era, go, ice, me, mile, mini, one, so, to, vile, we, etc...
 
 Lugbara-Ganda (Comedic Translations):
 Bambi = Sorry ['Ba mbi = Let us have sex]...