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

Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary (since 2016).txt

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Lost in Translation (Dreamcast)
 
 
 Introduction:
-Created painstakingly from scratch (zero) 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 teachers 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 especially before Volume 10 (rationalised a lot spiritually and while proofreading spellings). 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 (zero) 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 teachers 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 any 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 especially before Volume 10 (rationalised a lot spiritually and while proofreading spellings). 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 [Ekasa, Alamakanda in Aringa dialect] are not used (meaning only 24 on a keyboard can do), 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 soUnd), Va, Wa, Wha, Ya, Yha, Za. One of the nicest things about Lugbara is that words are pronounced the way they are written. 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. Consonant clusters in Lugbara are: (D)J, DR, (G)B, HW, (K)P,  M(G)B, MV, ND, NDR, NG, NY, NZ and TR while diphthong (vowel) clusters and other noteworthy phonetics include the following:
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ The Old Vocabulary was small because some words have multiple meanings based on
 Some words are borrowed or modified from English plus other languages like Swahili, Luganda, Lingala, etc. Lugbara words are written the same way they are pronounced; repeated letters especially consonants look ambiguously redundant and can be reformed eg Vurra, Uleppi, Owaffa, Oluffe, Okollo, Ofudde, Mekki, etc unless very special and meaningful (What you see is what you hear [WYSIWYH]).
 
 Marks for Simple Tones:
-In English, some words have different spellings, but the same pronunciation eg chat/ chart; heart/ hurt/ hat; lord/ load; son/ sun; etc. In Lugbara, the same spelling can have different pronunciations (hence meanings) based on three (to five including rising and falling) tones indicated by accents as below.
+In English, some words have different spellings, but the same pronunciation eg chase/ chess; chat/ chart; hat/ heart/ hurt; lace/ less; load/ lord; mane/ men; son/ sun; etc. In Lugbara, the same spelling can have different pronunciations (hence meanings) based on three (to five including rising and falling) tones indicated by accents as below.
 
 ´ High tone eg aí [salt], drí [head], tí [cow];
 
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ aci aci (v) share; walked; hot hot (also aciaci)
 
 Aci inyupiku ri (n) Hell, eternal fire eg Dimitri Azakovu eri o'duko engazu Aci inyupiku ri. = Dimitri Azzakov heard sounds from Hell.
 
-Aci Inzini (n) Electricity Engine, fuel power plant in Osu Village run by WENRECo (West Nile Rural Electrification Company) since the early 2000s supplying electricity to Arua Town before the anticipated Nyagak Dams were finally switched on, the second fuel-powered station was built in Ewuata
+Aci Inzini (n) Electricity Engine, fuel power plant in Osu Village run by WENRECo (West Nile Rural Electrification Company) since the early 2000s supplying electricity to Arua Town before the anticipated Nyagak Dams were finally switched on (The second fuel-powered station was built in Ewuata and old engine taken to Moyo. In 2025, West Nile was added to the National Grid)
 
 aci ma baka (n) cable, electricity wire (also kebo)
 
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ acika (n) smoke
 
 acikulu (n) charcoal
 
-Acile (n) male-given name meaning "Like light" eg Acile oja Abairo Yikuru engazu eli 2006. = Acile changed Abairo Falls since 2006.
+Acile (n) male-given name meaning "Like light" eg Acile ni jo si oni si. = Acile is building a house using rocks.
 
 acita (n) movement (also aciza)
 
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Adranga (n) Lugbara clan in DR Congo
 
 adre (v) be, is, was
 
-adreni (phr v.) is not (plu. adrekini) eg Ewa adreni muke ku 'ba andrale eli 120 (turu alu kali iri) pini. = Alcohol is not good for persons under the age of 120.
+adreni (adv) is not eg Ewa adreni muke ku 'ba andrale eli 120 (turu alu kali iri) pini. = Alcohol is not good for persons under the age of 120.
 
 adri (n) brother (also adriazi), means rock in Hindi eg Yuda ni Yema ma adri. = Yuda is Yema's brother.
 
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ agu bulogu sipiri (n) blogger (also buloga)
 
 agu 'ba ni oni tu (n) famous person, celebrity; famous people
 
-agu e'bi okupi (n) fisherman eg Yaremi ni agu e'bi okupi. = Jaremi is a fisherman.
+agu e'bi okupi (n) fisherman eg Yaremi ni agu e'bi okupi. = Jaremy is a fisherman.
 
 agu e'yo dapiri (n) moderator, presenter (also agu odapiri)
 
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ agupi (n) male, man, husband, husbank; males, husbands, men eg Kintu ni Nambi ma
 
 agupia (adv) (of women) married to a man, lad
 
-agupiamva (n) boy, lad, male child eg Ondia, Draru ma adri, ni agupiamva. = Ondia, Draru's brother, is a boy.
+agupiamva (n) boy, lad, male child, young man eg Ondia, Draru ma adri, ni agupiamva. = Ondia, Draru's brother, is a boy.
 
 agupianzi (n) boys, male children eg Agupianzi mu Wobulenzi-a. = The boys went to Wobulenzi.
 
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ buzaru (adj) covered
 
 'ba o'bipiri (n) tester
 
-'ba ode (n) youth (also yutu, karile, ezoanzi, anzi zoba zozo)
+'ba ode (n) youth (also yutu, karile, ezoanzi, anzi zopi zozo)
 
 'ba odrapi 'bo engazu idriru dika (n) resurrection
 
@@ -1781,7 +1781,7 @@ cucu (n) sweet round yellowish fruit encased in a papery husk, peruvian groundch
 
 culu (n) mister, polite way of addressing a male adult
 
-cuma (n) metal, machine
+cuma (n) metal, machine (also masini) eg Tinyiro imu cuma sola ayupini si. = Tinyiro came in a machine that uses solar.
 
 cupa (n) bottle eg Driwaru fe mani cupa. = Driwaru gave me a bottle.
 
@@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@ duruduru (adj) with mental inaptitude
 
 'dale (adv) like that, like it; that side
 
-'dani (adj) free
+'dani (adj) free eg Vimuto ni 'dani ku. = Vimto is not free.
 
 'dani 'dani (adj) continuous, (adv) continuously, for ever
 
@@ -2221,7 +2221,7 @@ Ekarakafe (n) place in Vurra, where the Sultan Isara Memorial Library is located
 
 ekele (n) cough (also okele)
 
-eki (phr v.) you swallow; (pron) they (also iki, ki, eyi, yi) eg Amuku azini Anyaku, eki akua. = Amuku and Anyaku, they are at home.
+eki (phr) you swallow (also iki); (pron) they (also iki, ki, eyi, yi) eg Amuku azini Anyaku, eki akua. = Amuku and Anyaku, they are at home.
 
 ekile (adj) like
 
@@ -2857,15 +2857,15 @@ hijabu (n) hijab, Muslim headscarf, veil eg Rebeka su hijabu. = Rebecca wore a h
 
 ho (adj) open (also hu)
 
-Holandi (n) Holland, Netherlands eg "Overmars" enga Holandi-a. = Overmars is from Holland.
+Holandi (n) Holland, Netherlands eg Ovamazi enga Holandi-a. = Overmars is from Holland.
 
 Holi (n) Hindu festival of colours
 
 horohoro (adj) light
 
-Hosipito Geri (n) Hospital Road eg "Container Village" ni andra Hosipito Geri-a. = Container Village used to be on Hospital Road.
+Hosipito Geri (n) Hospital Road eg Koniteina Calo ni andra Hosipito Geri-a. = Container Village used to be on Hospital Road.
 
-hoteli (n) hotel eg Dezati Burizi ni hoteli mini ico esu "Arua Golf Course" ma ageia. = Desert Breeze is a hotel you can find near the Arua Golf Course.
+hoteli (n) hotel eg Nyamuko ma Oli e'yere ni hoteli mini ico esu Arua Golufu Pari ma ageia. = Desert Breeze is a hotel you can find near the Arua Golf Course.
 
 Hozana (phr) Hosanna!
 
@@ -2913,7 +2913,7 @@ icikili (n) black ants that move in a group and can sting
 
 icita (n) deceipt; joining, connection
 
-ico (adj) can, capable (also eco); (phr v.) beat eg Ico aco ku! = Do not (wage a) fight!
+ico (adj) can, capable (also eco); (phr) beat eg Ico aco ku! = (You) do not (wage a) fight!
 
 Ico (n) Itso, Lugbara clan in DR Congo (pronounced Icho meaning "Able" [Information from John Godo]), probably Otsho (Congolese language very similar to Lugbara)
 
@@ -3045,7 +3045,7 @@ imbu (v) jump towards you
 
 imbuta (n) jump towards you
 
-imu (phr v.) come; mix eg Mi imu mavu! = Come to me!
+imu (v) come; mix eg Mi imu mavu! = Come to me!
 
 imve (adj) white colour (pronounced inve); (v) make white eg Ma Suru Drile ini, te eri ma jo woro imve. = My president is Black, but his house is all white.
 
@@ -3183,7 +3183,7 @@ ivezaru (adj) burnt
 
 ivi (n) pus, tsetse fly, white chalk
 
-ivu (n) basket made from the covering of sorghum stalk; (phr v.) You blow!
+ivu (n) basket made from the covering of sorghum stalk
 
 ivua (n) food basket plate
 
@@ -3211,7 +3211,7 @@ izata (n) sin
 
 ize (n) waste matter
 
-izi (phr v.) you open; you ask; (v) pray eg Izi Gugo! = Ask Google!
+izi (phr) you open; you ask; (v) pray eg Izi Gugo! = Ask Google!
 
 izia (adj) thin
 
@@ -3409,7 +3409,7 @@ kalulu (n) election
 
 kame (n) spoon, ladle
 
-Kameruni (c) Cameroon eg "Mr." Ibu ne Naomi-i Kameruni-a. = Mr. Ibu saw Naomi in Cameroon.
+Kameruni (c) Cameroon eg Culu Ibu ne Naomi-i Kameruni-a. = Mr. Ibu saw Naomi in Cameroon.
 
 kami (n) lion
 
@@ -3489,6 +3489,8 @@ Karukaru (n) place after Lokiragodo but before the Cico Construction Base in Mar
 
 Karuma (n) town near waterfalls and a bridge across the Victoria Nile as it flows from Lake Kyoga to Albert, location of a 600 MegaWatt dam and game park eg Sinohidro si Karuma Damu. = Sinohydro built Karuma Dam.
 
+Kasabulanika (n) Casablanca, town in Morocco (also Jo imve), restaurant behind Centenary Bank Arua though before road crossing to Hindu Temple eg Ma mu inyasa nya Kasabulanika-a. = I'm going to eat mingled bread at Casablanca.
+
 kasese (n) colourless alcoholic drink with sharp burning sting in its taste and scent, named after Kasese in Western Uganda eg Baluku ni kasese mvu. = Baluku is drinking kasese.
 
 kasino (n) casino eg Kiyaze ni azi nga kasino-a. = Kyazze works at a casino.
@@ -3561,7 +3563,7 @@ ki (pron) them, they, (suffix) denotes plural though used optionally; (v) swallo
 
 Kibira (n) third and youngest son of Gboro in Lugbara mythology whose spear Oli took to attack an elephant that was destroying millet in the garden; brother to Oli, Olu and Obaru
 
-kibo (n) basket
+kibo (n) basket eg Jaki ni kibo ca. = Jackie is weaving a basket.
 
 kiboko (n) cane, whip for punishing pupils or students
 
@@ -4149,6 +4151,8 @@ Maraca kiti (n) Maracha summer lounge chairs
 
 Marakana (n) Maracana Stadium found in Brazil, one of the Biggest Football Venues on Earth with a capacity of over 100,000 spectators and hosted the 2014 World Cup Final match
 
+Marakesi (n) Marrakesh, town in Morocco
+
 marani (n) soldier, watchman (also askari)
 
 mare (n) side blown trumpet made from a gourd and wooden tube blown through the hole in the gourd with the wooden tube pointing downward or under the left arm, smeared inside with bee wax
@@ -4277,23 +4281,23 @@ mi (pron) you, yourself (also mi-i) eg Aka mi ne! = When I see you!
 
 Mi ala? (greeting) You are fine?/ Are you fine?
 
-mi ape ti (phr v.) comment
+mi ape ti (phr) you comment
 
-mi edri (phr v.) send
+mi edri (phr) you send
 
 Mi fu ngoni? (greeting) Good morning! Literally: How did you get out? (also Mi ifu ngo, Owi ra [Has it dawned]?)
 
-mi gba ci (phr v.) save
+mi gba ci (phr) you save
 
-Mi Iji Katro Ngungu! (n) Lugbara song supposedly sung by doves
+Mi Iji Katro Ngungu! (n) Lugbara song supposedly sung by doves saying: Bring even if it smells!
 
-mi ikpa (phr v.) press
+mi ikpa (phr) you press
 
 Mi iri ra? (phr) Did you hear? (also Mi eri ra/ Mi ari ra?)
 
-mi le (phr v.) like
+mi le (phr) you like
 
-mi opi (phr v.) close
+mi opi (phr) you close
 
 Midia (n) subcounty in Koboko near the DR Congo Border
 
@@ -4537,7 +4541,7 @@ nanasi (n) pineapple eg Bebi Kita ni nanasi nya. = Baby Kita is eating a pineapp
 
 nasari (n) nursery, kindergarten, children's garden (also anzi amvu) eg Anzi avi "Springs" Nasari-a. = Children are playing at Springs Kindergarten.
 
-nasi (n) nurse eg Aniku ni nasi. = Aniku is a nurse.
+nasi (n) nurse eg Ayima ni nasi. = Ayima is a nurse.
 
 Natali (n) Nativity, Christmas (also Etu ambo, Kurisimasi)
 
@@ -5033,8 +5037,6 @@ o'duko 'ba jezuri (n) transfer news
 
 o'duko eceza (n) announcement (also oyuta)
 
-onokono (n) praying mantis
-
 ode (adj) young, youthful
 
 odrota (n) chase
@@ -5283,6 +5285,8 @@ oli (n) air, wind, airtime; (v) whistle, cut; roll eg Ndege ni aci oli-a si. = A
 
 Oli (n) river from which Oli Division gets its name, subcounty or division in Arua District comprising 28 cells in 2018, cannibalistic ancestor also known as Banyale in Lugbara mythology, eldest son of Gboro, had supernatural powers and kingship privileges symbolised by a bead, brother to Olu, Kibira and Obaru. His first descendants were Madi Pawor. He killed children and ate their liver
 
+oli e'yere (n) breeze, gentle wind
+
 oli vu (v) whistle
 
 oli vuza (n) whistling
@@ -7151,7 +7155,7 @@ zota (n) growth, development, prosperity, length, milking (also zoza)
 
 zozo (adv) distant, far, long
 
-zu (adv) whole day, morning to evening; (phr v., prep, suffix) for eg ayiko zu = enjoy (for happiness)
+zu (adv) whole day, morning to evening; (prep, suffix, v) for, savour eg ayiko zu = enjoy (savour happiness)
 
 zukulu (n) gourd, calabash (also erece), ndeku in Luganda