cabe {cebe} to show, to point; to advise (verb; 16)
cabu to shave
(verb; 12p)
cada (H): expensive, dear (adjective; 8p)
cahan to hurry
(verb, 18)
cahanyan [see
da cahanyan]: haste (noun; 18)
cakay weaver (noun;
23p)
care [cere] each other (pronoun; 9)
care banda [cere
banda]:
together (pronoun; 9)
care ra {cere ra} [cella] in each other, together
(pronoun)
cat with
difficulties [see da cat] adverb 18
caw to read; to study, to learn (verb;
7p)
caw, cawo study (noun; 16)
cawandi {cewendi} to teach, to teach a "book religion"
(verb; 19p)
cawandiko,
cawandikwa teacher,
instructor (noun; 6, 11)
cawko, cawkwa {cewko, cewkowa} reader
[someone who read] (noun)
cawyan, cawyaŋo
{cewyoŋ} reading [the
art of reading, or a religion based on a sacred
book]; studying (noun; 7)
cawyan fu house
religious services are held (noun; 7)
ce {cee} to call; to ring up (verb; 6p);
ce, ca leg, foot (noun; 6p,
20p);
ce [sorro]: time [as in one time, twice, many times]
ce fo: once (adverb; 6p);
ce hinka: twice (adverb; 12p)
ce beri (African) elephant [mammal] (noun;
5 list)
ce camse toenail (noun; 10)
ce ga: afoot
(adverb; 10p)
ce-ize, ce-izo: toe (noun;
10, 20p)
ce kondo heel (noun; 10)
ce konno {ce waasu}: eighth
month of lunar year or Muslim calender (noun; 25p)
ce mo, ce mwa {ce mowa} ankle (noun, 10)
ce wasso [Dendi
for ce
konno]: eighth month of lunar year
(noun; 25)
cebe (Songahi Kaado) {caba} to show, to
point out (verb; 7p)
cecena fritter of
beans (noun)
ceci {ceeci} to seek, to
search, to hunt for, to look for
(verb; 5p)
ceciyan {ceeciyan} (act
of) looking, search (noun; 8)
cella [cere ra, care ra] in each other,
together (pronoun; 17)
cerraw side of chest (noun; 10)
cere [care]
each other, one another, together [shows reciprocal relations] (pronoun; 9p,
13)
cere banda [care banda, cere bande] together
(pronoun; 13)
cere ra {care ra} [cella]
in each other, together (pronoun)
ceri to snap, to
break [as a stick or bone does] (verb; 16p)
cermey, cermeyo
craftiness, trickiness, cleverness
(noun; 25p)
cerram to be crafty,
to be wily, to be tricky [exception: when a small
child begins to learn to do things, he is said to be
cerram, with no pejorative intention] (verb; 25p)
cerraw side of
chest (noun; 20p);
cerraw ga on the
side of, on the wall of (adverbs; 20)
cessante round
about, on al sides of (adverbs; 20)
cessu ga round
about, on al sides of (adverbs; 20)
cetu to throw away
from, to lance (verb; 13);
cetu-cetu to pelt,
to throw many times (verb; 18)
ci to tell [rarely
“to say”] (verb; 9p)
cibsi [cimsi]:
twelfth month of lunar year (noun; 25)
cilla basket, reed
(noun; 20p)
cim (see cimi)
cimandi to believe
[a statement] (verb; 19p)
cimi {cim} to be right, correct, to be true;
to say the truth (verb; 15); example:
Ni ga cim! You're right! (interjection; 15)
cimi, cimo
truth (noun; 8)
cimi-noyan-jaŋko a unbeliever [person of no faith], the
unbeliever (noun; 22)
cimi-noyko,
cimi-nokwa a
believer (noun; 22)
cimsi, cimso [cibsi]:
Tabaski, 70 days after the Ramadan celebration;
twelfth month of lunar year (noun; 25p)
cin, cino night
(noun; 6p)
cina to build (verb; 12p)
cine, cina equal, equivalent, peer (noun)
mansa
cindi to remain, to
be left over (verb; 6p)
cine, cineyo
likeness, kind [high tone]; [sanni] speech, foreign language
[low tone] (noun; 4, 18p, 20p)
cire under, below,
beneath [tone from low to high]
(preposition; 4p); beneath, under (adverbs; 20)
ciray, ciray, cira
[*]: red [sometimes brown, dark yellow, etc.]
(adjective; 9p)
ciray-ciray pink,
light red (adjective; 18)
ciri, ciro salt
(noun; 10p)
citi: to judge (verb;
23p);
citi, cito judgement (noun; 23p)
ciya [#] to become
(verb; 22)
ciyan communication (noun; 15)
coro, cora close
friend (noun; 13p)
corotarey, corotara friendship,
companionship (noun, 9, 22p)
cunari building,
construction (noun; 23)
curo, cura [fatkoy] bird
(noun; 3p)
curo bi helmeted guinea fowl [bird] (noun;
5 list)
curo kayna wad birds [bird] (noun; 5 list)
curukusey midday
meal [may be as late as 2 p.m. or more]
(noun; 24p)