The concepts necessary for Luganda discourse on the body senses(enketteso z'omubiri)

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The discourse on the Body senses in Luganda

Can you explain in your mother tongue why you can see, hear, feel pain, hot, coldness? These are the concepts you need to know in your vernacular:

• enketteso (senses)

• Enketteso z'omubiri (the body senses)

       Enketteso ey’okuwulira		(the sense of hearing)		

• Enketteso ey’okulaba (the sense of seeing)

• “ • Enketteso ey’okuwunyiriza (sense of smelling)

• Enketteso oy’okusenserwa (sense of feeling /touching)

• “ • Enketteso z’omubiri ettaano (the five body senses senses) • “ • Okesegeera (to percieve, to detect (with the senses)

• Okutegeera (to understand )

• Okusenserwa (to feel (pain/pleasure)

• Okusegeera okw'enketteso ( sense perception) • “ • Ebirowoozo ebisegeere (n'enketteso z'omubiri) (concrete ideas)

• Ebirowoozo ebigereese (abstract ideas)

• Okugereesa (to abstract/ to theorize)