Nambya English

I did not give you the money

babies

have

(Shona) shiri

sons

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

have cold

(Shona) inda

pregnant, be

(Shona) ibvi

people

men

hunters

ask

raw

grass

noun smoke (of fire)

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

boat

noun green (colour)

noun white (colour)

third

hut

thousand

have hiccups

(Shona) muti

verb swim

rich

rat

eagle

sky

red ant

cock

feet

(Shona) husiku

sharpening tool

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

fences

noun horn (of bull etc.)

noun dog

eland

ostriches

animal

pipes

hippopotamus

widows

languages

drum

house

snake

mosquito

week

bridge

elephant

noun sun

fingernail

(Shona) gore

far

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

high

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

hard

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

fence

straight

have itch

(Shona) sango

fight

(Shona) -diki

song

river

rats

boats

deaf

graves

forty

ninety

maternal aunts

no

caves

bucks

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

name (family)

eyes

(Shona) -dema

fingers

(Shona) -tonhora

awake

now

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

chew

(Shona) chii

pronoun all (of a number)

noun hot (of weather)

where

few

Thank You

noun black (colour)

cut

(Shona) shoma

cook

(Shona) kwete

hunter

singer

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

thorn

bowstrings

moons

shamans

female

puddles

ant hills

hearths, cooking pits/fires