Nambya English

maternal grandmother

paternal grandmother

You did not see me

have

(Shona) shiri

people

old people

men

girls

kick

(Shona) nyama

beautiful

both

honey

verb kill

noun smoke (of fire)

hidden

brain

(Shona) nyanza

brains

(Shona) munyu

fourth

nest

verb swim

rich

nine

short

shell

adjective round

rock

red ants

valley

cock

ocean, sea

jackals

guinea fowls

armpit

(Shona) -gwamba, -tonhodza

worm

eyelashes

(Shona) -chena

dust

noun blood

thief

virgin

virgins

eland

pronoun 1.sg I

leopards

wells

vaginas

fly

meat

buffalo

noun bird

ghost

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

bridge

noun eye

songs

fast

fat

dried

verb say

speak

(Shona) -uraya

when

help

(Shona) muchero

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

language

finger

(Shona) zuva

rats

hives

deaf

ducks

eighty

maternal grandmothers

claws

bucks

ghosts

maternal grandfathers

five hundred

white ants (termites)

go

(Shona) baba

I gave you the money

bat

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

tired

wet

answer

eight

chief

cloudy

arrive

send

(Shona) -fema

hunter

fruit

sister-in-law

sister

priest

fall

(Shona) -fara

verb hear

nineteen

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

crows

adjective long (not ’wide’)