Chikunda English

noun red (colour)

frighten

(Shona) munhu

adjective cold (of weather)

verb sit

make

(Shona) musoro

think

(Shona) -famba

fight

(Shona) -diki

little

smell

(Shona) -tya

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

catch

(Shona) ani

obey

(Shona) mhuno

wet

put

(Shona) huro

do

(Shona) piri

hawks

widows

turtles

pregnant

adverb not

younger brothers

paternal uncles

fathers-in-law

butterflies

hats

pronoun all (of a number)

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

how many

animals

dead bodies

first

slow

huge

noun liver

knife

noun eye

noun earth (soil)

owl

Yesterday I didn’t see you

valley

river

noun skin (person’s)

split

(Shona) -vhima

hidden, be

(Shona) mhodzi, mbeu

have diarrhea

(Shona) nyoka

thirsty, be

(Shona) -uya

bleed

(Shona) iwe

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

recognize

(Shona) moyo

strong

deep

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

save

(Shona) -pfira

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

noun tongue (anatomical)

east

bananas

eighty

pipes

priests

weeks

excrement

(Shona) gomo

five hundred

mosquitoes

noun dog

noun dog

(Shona) imbwa

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

tails

backs

(Shona) mvura

noun fire

noun air

noun person (individual human)

worm

village

husband

with

noun claw

elands

fly

puddles

verb intr. path (road, trail; not street)

warthogs

chickens

pigs

orphan

seven

tribe

flea

lice, body

roofs

noun flesh (meat)

noun flesh (meat)

snakes

here

why

trap

(Shona) -sumuka, -simuka, -mira

young birds

wool

You see me

male

blind