Chikunda English

verb come

return

(Shona) -nwa

arrive

verb sleep

fear

(Shona) -kora

make

(Shona) musoro

pull

(Shona) ura, matumbu

drunk, be

(Shona) china

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

verb drink

tear

(Shona) -mbururuka

vomit

(Shona) -kwiza

take

(Shona) -chera, -tukumbam

obey

(Shona) mhuno

send

(Shona) -fema

do

(Shona) piri

frogs

virgins

elder sister

singers

wives

paternal grandmothers

brothers-in-law

enemies

name (family)

buck

cockroach

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

undress

(Shona) -bata, -pfunda

songs

shell

noun liver

nest

yesterday

you (pl)

they

bat

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

turtle

armpit

(Shona) -gwamba, -tonhodza

give birth

(Shona) murume

perspire

(Shona) nzara

verb dead

cloudy

south

receive

(Shona) chifuva

ripe

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

noun bull

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

fence

rock

graves

verb tomorrow

left

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

ladders

hyenas

birds

worms

trails

branches

trees

poor

lion

hippopotamus

white ant (termite)

four

noun claw

claws

puddle

I don’t see you

wife

stories

chicken

old person

tribe

hunter

noun feather (large, not down)

python

eyebrow

(Shona) -tsvuku

eyelashes

(Shona) -chena

crocodile

lake

buffalo

houses

kudu

ground

enter

(Shona) -hombe

adjective long (not ’wide’)

how

flat

throw away

(Shona) -garira

trap

(Shona) -sumuka, -simuka, -mira

now

chins

(Shona) denga

children

hive

blind