More about how to actually find words

 
When you go into the actual dictionary, you will notice a floating bar of underlined letters at the top. If you click on one of those letters, it takes you directly to the first word whose stem starts with that letter. Let’s say you want to look up the meaning of the word isaaga. You have to know that the stem for this word is saaga, so you click the letter “s” in the floating bar. If you click “i”, you won’t easily find what you are looking for. Look for the first letter of the stem, not the first letter of the word. Go back to the explanation of how to figure out the stem, if you looked up “i”. When you find the nouns, notice that is lookes like isaaga. The stem is put in bold.

 
Okay, now you want to look up the meaning of iziseetwe. First, you know this is a plural – izi is the plural prefix, the singular is e-. You found isaaga pretty quickly since it was almost at the top of the collection of s-words. You will just have to scroll down from ilisa to find eseetwe (“mousebird”). This should not be too hard since the stem is in bold and it’s on the left, so watch for seetwe.

Test time!

What are amahiligoma? First, figure out the stem – chop off the plural noun class prefix. Then look for the stem.

Is there a better way to search? Maybe. You can also search using the browser’s search function. Often this means pressing ctrl-f then typing in the text that you are looking for. You can also use the magnifying lense icon to search on a phone browser (no ctrl key!). This is usually a good way to look up a Logoori word. You can search for any text on the page, including the English translation, but don’t bother searching for the verb “play” since this will take you to each and every recording-playback button (there are thousands).