Chikunda English

verb hear

return

(Shona) -nwa

verb die

breathe

(Shona) ino

close

(Shona) rini

fear

(Shona) -kora

buy

(Shona) apo

fall

(Shona) -fara

fry

(Shona) mwana

talk

(Shona) -shambira

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

verb fat

cook

(Shona) kwete

noun hot (of weather)

play

(Shona) tsoka

long

try

(Shona) -pota

do

(Shona) piri

lizards

widows

farmers

elder sister

spiders

paternal aunt

mothers

paternal uncles

brothers-in-law

noun bark (of tree)

duck

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

noun bone

blunt (knife)

animals

nests

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

slow

cough

(Shona) mhepo

wind

name

yesterday

verb (imperative) walk

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

pronoun 2.sg You

insect

fourteen

split

(Shona) -vhima

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

have fever

(Shona) gonye

hungry

hungry, be

(Shona) uswa

noun rain

press

(Shona) dumbu

perspire

(Shona) nzara

ill, become

(Shona) ganda

beautiful

burned

wipe

(Shona) -taura, -ti

heat

(Shona) rutanda

wide

dry

right

rock

names

boats

east

verb gardens

forty

hyenas

magic

chicken eggs

noun bird

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

noun bird

thief

thieves

mice

impalas

farmer

child

fruit

noun claw

cow

I see you

I don’t see you

better

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

eagles

eyebrow

(Shona) -tsvuku

tusks

song

house

enemy

ground

numeral two

enter

(Shona) -hombe

friends

adjective long (not ’wide’)

throw away

(Shona) -garira

noun breast (female)

(Shona) zamu

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

both