Nambya English

maternal aunt

I don’t see you

farmers

priests

You’re Welcome

numeral two

wipe

(Shona) -taura, -ti

verb kill

noun green (colour)

save

(Shona) -pfira

noun knee

cage

hearth, cooking pit/fire

have hiccups

(Shona) muti

fist

(Shona) -zara

verb sit

rat

hole

buck

roof

magic

lake

ten

sharpening tool

guinea fowls

rope

noun blood

thief

seeds

you (pl)

story

branches

orphan

well

fly

bulls

tusk

tusks

bee

kudu

python

strong

ripe

ground

fishnet

wool

summer

adjective name

dry

sad

when

hard

verb stand

rats

hands

(Shona) -ipa

boats

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

cocks

thirty

maternal grandmothers

eagles

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

cockroaches

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

paternal uncles

paternal aunts

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

fathers-in-law

verb words

trails

backs

(Shona) mvura

go

(Shona) baba

how many

wet

pronoun all (of a number)

heat

(Shona) rutanda

burned

choose

(Shona) kupi

eight

free

begin

(Shona) ndi, ini

paternal uncle

maternal grandfather

dark

possible

fleas

baby

noun neck (not nape)

husband

old person

elder sister

friend

trail

noun foot (not leg)

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

hunt

(Shona) tambo

here

day before yesterday

sweet

chins

(Shona) denga