Chikunda English

cut

(Shona) shoma

live

(Shona) mvere

verb bite

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

hit

(Shona) mudzi

kick

(Shona) nyama

verb drink

another

grind

(Shona) hove

cook

(Shona) kwete

bark (dog)

begin

(Shona) ndi, ini

watch

(Shona) -sona

butterfly

crabs

frogs

tortoises

hunters

paternal grandfather

sisters

younger sisters

fathers

paternal uncles

boat

undress

(Shona) -bata, -pfunda

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

how much

true (not false)

hat

old

wind

garden

noun egg

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

you (pl)

noun hand

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

ten

fifteen

hungry, be

(Shona) uswa

verb dead

swell

(Shona) -kwenya, -kwara

dawn

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

wash hands

(Shona) -sunda, -sandidzira

sweet

wide

weak

rotten

names (family)

west

verb words

rats

malaria

younger brother

pipes

ladders

hyenas

hives

noun bird

mosquitoes

dogs

thorns

backs

(Shona) mvura

tribes

noun air

trail

noun person (individual human)

noun root (botanics)

hippopotamus

hippopotamuses

younger sister

fly

geese

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

story

(fire)wood

seven

language

fish(es)

fleas

crocodile

noun flesh (meat)

song

then

verb pipe

monkey

adjective long (not ’wide’)

phrase we are burnt with air (the phrase a groom uses to ask for a bride to come with him)

Speaker: Robert Chimbiti

pond

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

there

You did not see me

brain

(Shona) nyanza

red ant

noun night

bow

You see me

people

blind