Nambya English

maternal aunt

enemy

elder sisters

friends

grooms

daughters

pregnant, be

(Shona) ibvi

bald

younger sisters

verb see

honey

wipe

(Shona) -taura, -ti

beard

(Shona) kunaya

adjective good

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

how

thousand

left

have hiccups

(Shona) muti

banana

wing

hyena

twin

adjective round

magic

lake

pond

year

feet

(Shona) husiku

owl

worm

noun horn (of bull etc.)

winter

you (pl)

veins

malaria

crocodile

hat

fly

turtle

stars

snakes

mosquito

strong

ripe

noun water

pronoun 2.sg You

he

frog

frightened

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

language

garden

ill, become

(Shona) ganda

fight

(Shona) -diki

geese

spears

years

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

seventy

thirty

maternal grandmothers

Tomorrow I will see you

holes

hawks

wings

cockroaches

bucks

watefalls

roofs

fishnets

verb words

seven hundred

name (family)

white ants (termites)

names (family)

month

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

be blind

noun red (colour)

free

dirty

do

(Shona) piri

first

send

(Shona) -fema

noun woman

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Bengani Ncube

elder sister

brother

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

thorn

break

(Shona) va

find

(Shona) -pfupi

puddle

twelve

recognize

(Shona) moyo

impossible

born, be

(Shona) ti

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

leechs