Chikunda English

hide

(Shona) shizha

verb hear

verb come

adjective full

verb die

bury

(Shona) pano

want

(Shona) -geza

close

(Shona) rini

fall

(Shona) -fara

awake

verb say

speak

(Shona) -uraya

verb fat

tired

verb give

turn

(Shona) -wa, -donha

chew

(Shona) chii

send

(Shona) -fema

count

(Shona) zhinji

hawks

baboons

brides

singers

monkeys

hunters

paternal aunt

maternal aunts

mothers

fathers-in-law

enemies

grandchildren

undress

(Shona) -bata, -pfunda

songs

fourth

dead body

bald

pronoun this

twelve

armpit

(Shona) -gwamba, -tonhodza

fishnet

sad

ill, become

(Shona) ganda

silent

south

burned

wide

suck

(Shona) -baya, -junga

verb today

blue

flower

in morning

noun water

sixty

twins

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

zebra

mosquito

holes

tails

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

stones

worms

trail

verb, transitive farm

You’re Welcome

village

hippopotamuses

noun man (adult male human)

widow

ant

never

younger sister

noun claw

claws

elands

cow

I don’t see you

warthogs

jackal

stories

story

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

chicken

pigs

eagles

seven

lice, body

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword

eyelashes

(Shona) -chena

buffalo

noun star

snakes

grandchild

nine

adjective long (not ’wide’)

how

six

children

people