Nambya English

maternal aunt

enemy

elder brothers

old people

younger sisters

girls

hunters

kick

(Shona) nyama

You’re Welcome

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

east

noun green (colour)

brain

(Shona) nyanza

dig

(Shona) motsi

stick

thousand

spit

(Shona) -rwa

rich

sit down

(Shona) -nhuwidza

goose

sky

excrement

(Shona) gomo

magic

cough

(Shona) mhepo

ocean, sea

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

bags

monkey

right

winter

ostriches

vein

veins

noun louse

orphan

question what?

bulls

noun claw

snakes

forest

pythons

lion

chicken

brown

thin

old

hit

(Shona) mudzi

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

twins

horns

chicken eggs

spears

bones

(Shona) gungwa

female

lakes

valleys

cocks

eighty

sharpening tools

mothers-in-law

Tomorrow I will not see you

narrow

cockroaches

nets

verb words

five hundred

every day

eyes

(Shona) -dema

fingers

(Shona) -tonhora

backs

(Shona) mvura

other

month

noun moon

noun tail

better

which

where

blow

(Shona) a

burned

remain

(Shona) chitaka

paternal grandfather

cut

(Shona) shoma

fingernails

(Shona) -dziya

broom

noun man (adult male human)

elder sister

brother

singer

back

(Shona) jenaguru

girl

break

(Shona) imi

broken, be

bowstrings

eleven

puddles

recognize

(Shona) moyo

here

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

adjective long (not ’wide’)

baskets