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PHILOLOGY. 



Mbola -~ga, to throw stones or sticks. 

 Mbolambolo, the top of the small house in 



a canoe. 



Mbombo -ka, to squeeze. 

 Mbombota, red, ruddy (said of the sky, or 



a person's skin). 

 Mbombula, a slave ; slavery. 

 Mbona, smell, odor. 

 Mboyi, night ; namboyi, last night. 

 Mbogimboyi, morning ; to-morrow. 

 MboyiSaka, to extinguish. 

 MboyiSakina, to be benighted. 

 Mborisi, anger, angry. 

 Mboritaki, unkind, ill-natured. 

 Mboriti, malignant wishes or orders. 

 Mboro, to paint ; paint ; pepper. 

 Mboro, to refuse ; not to give. 

 Mboro-sakina, to break small (?). 

 Mbose, to consult ; a consultation. 

 Mlx>si, a law. 



Mboso -ka, to rub, to knead. 

 Mboso -lak. and -rak., to rub, to break 



small. 



Mbota, to apportion. 

 Mbota, to pursue. 

 Mbote, to repair an old canoe. 

 Mboto, a beast ; a frog. 

 Mboto-ni-lovo, native oven. 

 Mbotona, bottom of a pot. 

 Mboturata, crown of the head. 

 Mbu, a young cocoa-nut. 

 Mbu (R.), a grandfather. 

 Mbua, an uninhabited place. 

 Mbuawa, short-sighted, dazzled. 

 MbuSi, wet ; moisture. 

 MbuSu, the loins. 

 Mbui, tail. 



Mbuia, to come to land ; to knot. 

 Mbuikiti, a variety of the hog. 

 Mbuka, fire; firewood, fuel; -na, to add 



fuel to a fire. 



Mbukete, pregnant ; pregnancy. 

 Mbukete-vatu, dropsy. 

 Mbuku, two cocoa-nuts. 

 Mbuku, mbukui, a knot ; to knot. 

 Mbukulamba, to kill treacherously. 

 Mbula, life, to live. 



Mbulase, cold food. 



Mbuli -a, to appoint a king. 



Mbulia, to heap up ; to make a peace. 



Mbulimbuli, a feast made for a king at his 



inauguration. 



Mbuli, the ovula-shell (or mbule). 

 Mbulu -ta, to bury. 

 Mbulumbulu, to bury ; that which covers 



or buries any thing. 

 Mbulumbulu, a peace-offering ; to present 



a peace-offering. 

 Mbulumbulu, a species of banana ; also, a 



small shark. 



Mbumbu, to devour with eagerness. 

 Mbumbului, or mbumbunui, an oath ; to 



make oath. 



Mbumbuta, scorched. 

 Mbundi, a banana. 

 Mbunoa, mbunombuno, perspiration ; to 



perspire. 



Mbure, ten clubs. 

 Mbure, a temple, a council-house, public 



house of reception. 

 Mburi, an ant-hill. 

 Mburo-go, a black cockroach. 

 Mburu, ten cocoa-nuts. 

 Mbusa (S.), fire. (See mbuka.) 

 Mbusa, a plain ; an uninhabited place, 



(mbua.) 



Mbusambusana, same as above. 

 Mbusi, fetid. 



Mbuta, sufficiently boiled or cooked. 

 Mbutaalai (O.), roasting a man whole. 

 Mbutambuta, food and property given as 



compensation to the carpenter who is 



building a canoe. 

 Mbutambula, the thigh. 

 Mbutambutao (S.), a thief; to steal. 

 Mbuto, the centre, midst. 

 Mbuto, mbutdmbutd, dark ; darkness. 

 Mbutu, a marriage ceremony in which 



property is exchanged by the friends 



of the bride and bridegroom. 

 Mbutu -ka, to stamp. 

 Me, to; that, so that (sign of the subjunc- 

 tive). 

 Mea, bitter (used only of yams.) 



