Nambya English

and

maternal grandmother

I don’t know

You did not see me

friends

have children

(Shona) imbwa

bats

younger sisters

girls

priests

numeral two

verb see

noun white (colour)

stick

noun liver

ant hill

fist

(Shona) -zara

breathe

(Shona) ino

hyena

play

(Shona) tsoka

valley

year

cock

feet

(Shona) husiku

grave

sharpening tool

jackals

guinea fowls

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

dust

comb

dream

noun horn (of bull etc.)

dogs

adjective cold (of weather)

drum

houses

orphan

flies

fly

bee

mosquito

lion

noun eye

name

fast

drunk, be

(Shona) china

thin

run

(Shona) -ruma

arm

(Shona) -erera

straight

correct

bananas

forearms

(Shona) -naka

hives

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

flowers

Tomorrow I will not see you

eagles

axes

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

verb, transitive embers

mountains

weeks

bridges

seven hundred

eyes

(Shona) -dema

noun yellow (colour)

trails

backs

(Shona) mvura

ladders

names (family)

salt

verb drink

child

daughter

son

noun moon

smell

(Shona) -tya

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

verb fly

laugh

(Shona) zai

answer

happy

first

paternal uncle

noun black (colour)

escape

(Shona) -reba

bride

noun mouth

elder sister

fish(es)

find

(Shona) -pfupi

moons

fifteen

shaman

female

here

every

leechs