Chikunda English

leave

(Shona) nyanga

speak

(Shona) -uraya

dream

give greetings

(Shona) amai

verb drink

verb fat

verb give

noun hot (of weather)

choose

(Shona) kupi

long

noun burn

wet

put

(Shona) huro

sons-in-law

maternal aunt

father-in-law

spiders

maternal grandmothers

butterflies

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

crab

valleys

ghosts

nests

knife

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

yesterday you saw me

banana

valley

you (pl)

bat

chin

(Shona) mhute

river

twelve

baboon

at

hidden

have diarrhea

(Shona) nyoka

verb dead

sniff

(Shona) -rarama

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

verb clean

freeze

(Shona) murume

float

(Shona) -onda

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

save

(Shona) -pfira

adjective round

when

flower

names (family)

twenty

dreams

graves

arms

(Shona) zuva

mountains

breasts

(Shona) ibwe

zebras

bellies

(Shona) dziva

farms

brooms

noun air

bride

winter

worm

noun moon

dark

sister

noun claw

fly

I did not give you the money

I don’t know

I see you

I don’t see you

jackal

chickens

pig

orphan

eagles

day after tomorrow

son-in-law

pythons

louse, head

verb kind

leopard

animal

noun flesh (meat)

tusks

snakes

rhinoceros

monkey

five

week

adjective long (not ’wide’)

bowstrings

noun hair (on head of humans)

noun breast (female)

(Shona) zamu

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there

red ant

male