Nambya English

mother

maternal grandmother

mother-in-law

I did not give you the money

I don’t know

husbands

priests

grandchildren

boys

cooked

at night

noun night

hidden

noun green (colour)

second

stick

how

hide

(Shona) shizha

basket

sneeze

(Shona) -rara

short

rat

noun bark (of tree)

hive

adjective round

rock

mud

red ant

red ants

pond

grave

ocean, sea

crabs

armpit

(Shona) -gwamba, -tonhodza

bag

impala

noun dog

eland

elands

houses

orphan

wells

warthogs

tusk

tusks

verb intr. path (road, trail; not street)

ghost

pronoun inclusive we

noun hair (on head of humans)

dry

in

have fever

(Shona) gonye

smooth

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

verb sleep

pay

(Shona) rurimi

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

finger

(Shona) zuva

mice

arms

(Shona) zuva

bones

(Shona) gungwa

years

cocks

thirty

maternal aunts

no

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

fishnets

nets

name (family)

eyes

(Shona) -dema

daughter

noun heart

bat

how many

adjective small

lizard

pronoun all (of a number)

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

burn

(Shona) iyo

few

chickens

fingernails

(Shona) -dziya

enemies

fruit

groom

noun mouth

noun woman

brother

waist

noun head (anatomic)

noun foot (not leg)

find

(Shona) -pfupi

fifteen

female

recognize

(Shona) moyo

here

verb come

in morning

knives