EBA.


 caka endasibonayo: The servant
 (he) whom I saw.-6. When thus
 prefixed to nouns, whose initial
 vowel is I, it forms the genitive of
 therelative pronoun Who or Which.
 When thus used, the noun to which
 E is prefixed is followed either by
 an adjective or a verb. Indoda
 egama likulu: A man whose name
 is great. Inkosi ebantn baninzi:
 The chief whose people are many.-
 7. It is the initial vowel of the
 ablative of common nouns. Endl-
 wini: In the house. Emlanjeni:
 In the river.-N.B. In the exam-
 ples under Nos. 6 and 7, the initial
 vowel of the nouns is elided, as is
 always the case where these forms
 are used.
ukw EBA, v.t.z. To steal; to take secretly;
 to purloin. The Xosa is Ukiba.
ukw EBAND, v.i. z. 1. To hide behind a
 person or thing. Uyebanda ngesi-
 hlahla: He hides himself behind
 the bush.-2. To evade.a charge of
 guilt, by laying it upon another;
 Musa kwebanca ngaye; nguwe
 onecala: You must not try to lay
 the blame on him, itis you who are
 in fault.
 EnB, x. Tense form of the verb, spec.
 1 sing., and 2nd plu., past time.
 He was, or, they were, or, he or
 they having been. Ebeteta: He
 was speaking, or, He having been
 speaking. Amatye ebeseko: The
 stones were still there. Amadoda
 ebefika: The men were arriving.
 EBENGA, x. Tense neg. form of the
 verb. He not having. Spec. 1
 sing., and spec. 2 plu., past time.
 Ebengafiki: He not arriving, or,
 not having arrived.
 EBmNGAYI, x. Tense neg. form of the
 verb, spec. 1 sing., and spec. 2 plu.,
 prefixed to the infinitive of the
 verb. He, or they, would not have,
 or, He, or they, not being about to.
 Ebengayi kuteta: He would not
 have spoken. Ebengayi kufika
 amadoda lawo: Those men would
 not have arrived.
 EBEYA, x. Tense form of the verb, spec.
 1 sing., and 2 plu., prefixed to the
 infinitive of the verb. He was
 about to, or, He having been about
 to. Ebeya kuteta: He was about
 to speak. Ebeya kusela amahashe :
 The horses were about to drink.


 EKAYA.

 is Em, n.z. A thief; one who steals or
 takes a thing secretly; a purloiner.
ulw EBU, n.z. 1. The thin outer skin or
 husk of a plant; the outer thin
 skin on the bark of a living tree.-
 2. The epidermis, or scarf skin of
 the human body; the cuticle.-
 3. The skin of the snake when cast
 off, as it usually is in every spring
 season of the year.
ukw EBUKA, v.i.z. To peel off, as the cuticle
 from any portion of the body, or
 the thin outside covering of the
 bark of a living tree.
ukw EBUKA, v. i. z. To cast the outer skin, as
 a snake.
ukw EBULA, v.t.x. To strip off the skin; to
 peel off, as the peeling of the bark
 from a green rod, as a willow rod.
 EBUSIKA, adv. x. In the winter; during
 the winter season.
 EBUSUKU, adv. x. By night; during the
 night season. The ablative of Ubu-
 suu : Night.
 EBUSWENi, adv. x. In the presence of.
 Lit. In the face of. Ebusweni is
 the ablative of Ubuso, Face, and is
 used in Kaffir to denote, In the
 presence of. Ebuswceni buka Tixo:
 In the presence of God.
 ECINI, adv. z. On purpose; intention-
 ally.
 ukw ElrKA, v.i.z. See Ukuduka.
 EDVzA, adv. z. Adjacent; near to.
 EDwA, adv.x.z. Alone. This is the
 root of the words Bedwa, A'dedwa,
 and Yedwa, which see. The let-
 ters prefixed to Edwa are the
 euphonic letters of the nouns quali-
 fied by these adverbs.
 EiLA interj, x. 1. Ah you Ehla
 wena i wenzantoninal Ah you!
 What are you doing?--2. Surely !
 Ehla wena! Surely you jest!
 Ehla lomntu! Elumkile: Ah !
 that is the man for ability or acute-
 ness.
 ukw EnLA, v. i.z. To descend; to come
 down; to alight; to descend, as
 from a mountain to the plain
 below.
 ukw Eni.LA, v.t.z. To descend upon; to
 alight upon.
 am EHLO, n.x.z. E)es. Irregular plu. for
 iliso, Eye.
 EHLOBo, adv. x. z. In the summer sea-
 son. Ablative of i Hlobo : Summer.
 EKAYA, adv.x.z. At home; home.
 Ablative of i Kaya: Home.