Chikunda English

understand

(Shona) -pa

leave

(Shona) nyanga

feed

(Shona) -rema

verb know (facts)

bury

(Shona) pano

verb sleep

fry

(Shona) mwana

verb say

dream

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

little

noun hot (of weather)

vomit

(Shona) -kwiza

play

(Shona) tsoka

take

(Shona) -chera, -tukumbam

help

(Shona) muchero

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

noun green (colour)

hard

brides

elder brother

paternal grandmother

crocodiles

leopards

paternal grandfather

no

fathers

paternal uncles

maternal uncles

cockroach

noun bone

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

old

noun liver

ant hill

noun egg

owl

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

word

blow

(Shona) a

stick

noun mouth

rat

ten

fishnet

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

thirsty, be

(Shona) -uya

noun rain

press

(Shona) dumbu

scratch

(Shona) -rutsa

dawn

sneeze

(Shona) -rara

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

where

names (family)

east

combs

twenty

dreams

brother

money

magic

seven hundred

axes

birds

thief

thieves

arrows

languages

tribes

villages

spears

poor

priest

hole

verb, transitive farm

thorn

verb stone

husband

fruit

white ants (termites)

elands

beard

(Shona) kunaya

cow

I don’t know

I will give you the money

Tomorrow I will see you

warthogs

female

story

lice, body

days

roof

crocodile

meat

elephants

bowstring

young birds

grass

sons