Nambya English

wives

daughters-in-law

friends

singers

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

gather

(Shona) mudzimai

brains

(Shona) munyu

noun nose

fourth

sew

(Shona) -nzwa

short

hawk

chicken egg

combs

seeds

zebra

impala

dogs

ostriches

veins

cow

house

orphan

flies

question what?

why

noun flesh (meat)

tusks

noun star

noun bird

kudus

python

noun hair (on head of humans)

fast

brown

fat

drunk, be

(Shona) china

adjective dry (substance)

thin

sad

watch

(Shona) -sona

at

grind

(Shona) hove

old

verb walk

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

verb sleep

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

straight

noun tongue (anatomical)

verb bite

finger

(Shona) zuva

garden

river

spears

seventy

paternal grandmothers

mothers-in-law

day after tomorrow

snore

(Shona) -fa

caves

wings

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

watefalls

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

eyes

(Shona) -dema

white ants (termites)

brooms

Goodbye

verb drink

four

leave

(Shona) nyanga

I know

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

wet

flat

burned

adjective new

noun red (colour)

choose

(Shona) kupi

cloudy

dirty

buy

(Shona) apo

chickens

fingernails

(Shona) -dziya

white ant (termite)

noun mouth

son-in-law

noun earth (soil)

waist

urine

thorn

ants

bowstrings

female

perspire

(Shona) nzara

every

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

adjective long (not ’wide’)