Nambya English

maternal aunt

I did not give you the money

adverb not

enemy

brothers

elder brothers

singers

husbands

have cold

(Shona) inda

verb kind

younger sisters

hunters

honey

beard

(Shona) kunaya

east

have diarrhea

(Shona) nyoka

need

(Shona) nzeve

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

chin

(Shona) mhute

slow

hide

(Shona) shizha

comb

(Shona) sei, -ngani

left

hearth, cooking pit/fire

short

verb sit

wing

chicken egg

duck

goose

excrement

(Shona) gomo

noun mountain (not hill)

comb

thieves

pipes

malaria

story

house

hat

question what?

turtle

noun flesh (meat)

buffalo

stars

noun ear

kudus

lion

lions

strong

fishnet

noun breasts (female)

frog

brown

insect

far

grind

(Shona) hove

heavy

hard

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

straight

verb eat

hands

(Shona) -ipa

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

forty

owls

mothers

maternal aunts

no

narrow

eagles

bridges

seven hundred

bellies

(Shona) dziva

noun fire

son

better

I know

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

adjective small

tired

chew

(Shona) chii

verb die

flat

heat

(Shona) rutanda

Thank You

receive

(Shona) chifuva

sell

(Shona) -furidza

noun neck (not nape)

old person

arrow

back

(Shona) jenaguru

bury

(Shona) pano

bowstring

nineteen

pronoun this

float

(Shona) -onda

impossible

born, be

(Shona) ti

little

hearths, cooking pits/fires