teera

== Tooro == === Etymology === Inherited from Common Bantu *-téeda (“to hit, lay eggs”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /téːɾa/ === Verb === -teera (infinitive okuteera) to hit (to come into contact with forcefully): (transitive) to strike, to beat (to administer a blow to) Near-synonym: -honda (“to pound, crush”) (transitive) to play a musical instrument (transitive) to knead (clay) (intransitive) to clap one's hands [with (o)mu ngaro] (intransitive) to tramp (to walk with heavy footsteps) [with emirindi ‘footsteps’] (intransitive) to stumble [with enkonge ‘obstacle’] (transitive) to draw (to portray or represent something) (intransitive, of wind) to blow (intransitive) to comb one's hair [with isoke] (intransitive) to blow a whistle [with efurumbi ‘whistle (device)’] (ambitransitive) to whistle [with ekyoya] (ambitransitive) to make a telephone call [with esimu ‘telephone’] (ambitransitive, of a heart) to beat, to pulsate [with omutima] (ambitransitive, of a headache) to be painful [with omutwe] ==== Usage notes ==== (to play a musical instrument): For wind instruments, the verb -huuha is used. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Verbal derivations: Applicative: -teerra Short causative: -teeza Passive: -teerwa Long reciprocal: -teerangana Reduplicative: -teerateera Nominal derivations: akateerarume (“ankle”) omuteezi (“one who hits/strikes”) === References === Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 15, 136, 207, 232, 234, 237, 241, 242, 286, 303, 321, 323 Rubongoya, L. T. (2013), Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎[2], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 394 Entry 7933 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3