Verb Intransitive

MEANING

walk with limp due to injury or deformity in leg or hip.

Example of use

1.     umwana wandi ala sunkuta, afyelwe uwalemana, MEANING: my child walks with limp, he was born lame.

2.     uyu mwana ale sunkuta, aponene kumu yembe aifytula ikufi, MEANING: this child is limping because he fell out of a mango tree and dislocated his knee.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

sunta.

 

OTHERRELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

APPLICATIVE: sunkutila.  PASSIVE: sunkutisha.

FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/ EXPRESSION

lwaku sunkuta fye, akasuka kawa ukwabula ukufika, MEANING: we were so slow, we had not arrived when night fell.