Nambya English

live

(Shona) mvere

daughters-in-law

elder brothers

count

(Shona) zhinji

bad

beard

(Shona) kunaya

boat

noun green (colour)

return

(Shona) -nwa

south

second

spider

crow

chin

(Shona) mhute

left

hearth, cooking pit/fire

yes

nine

mice

wing

goose

cheek

(Shona) huruva

cough

(Shona) mhepo

noun fish

dust

money

seeds

adjective cold (of weather)

drum

cheetahs

vaginas

hat

turtle

noun bull

tusk

snakes

ripe

fishnet

word

wool

pronoun 2.sg You

elephants

insect

adjective dry (substance)

hungry

rotten

huge

smooth

sing

(Shona) -funga

verb lie (on side, recline)

heavy

cry

(Shona) amwe

straight

fear

(Shona) -kora

ill, become

(Shona) ganda

verb stand

arms

(Shona) zuva

fists

(Shona) -itsva

vomit

butterflies

cocks

sixty

mothers

verb tomorrow

hawks

axes

paternal aunts

paternal grandfathers

fishnets

trails

arrows

salt

hearts

(Shona) -asviba

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

pronoun all (of a number)

burn

(Shona) iyo

noun burn

eight

do

(Shona) piri

maternal grandfather

possible

fleas

noun boy

bow

wind

baby

fruit

noun neck (not nape)

brother-in-law

You see me

noun man (adult male human)

daughter-in-law

poor

ladder

bury

(Shona) pano

shaman

puddles

open

(Shona) muromo, mukanwa

impossible