Nambya English

maternal grandmother

I will not give you the money

daughters

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

boiled

verb see

honey

noun feather (large, not down)

brains

(Shona) munyu

basket

verb swim

rich

mice

buck

twin

noun egg

verb stone

year

ten

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

dust

rainbow

impalas

dogs

virgins

ostrich

ostriches

pipes

hippopotamuses

vein

languages

crocodile

cheetahs

branches

orphan

meat

bees

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

noun hair (on head of humans)

noun water

wool

summer

fry

(Shona) mwana

fat

drunk, be

(Shona) china

adjective dry (substance)

thin

then

have fever

(Shona) gonye

long

cry

(Shona) amwe

pay

(Shona) rurimi

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

dream

(Shona) tatu

arm

(Shona) -erera

straight

correct

garden

ponds

years

seventy

maternal grandmothers

paternal grandmothers

narrow

caves

cockroaches

ghosts

paternal uncles

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

nets

verb words

breasts

(Shona) ibwe

eyes

(Shona) -dema

white ants (termites)

villages

month

noun moon

I gave you the money

better

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

be blind

burned

laugh

(Shona) zai

arrive

press

(Shona) dumbu

bow

dawn

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Bengani Ncube

village

names

grandchild

broken, be

eleven

nineteen

pronoun this

Yesterday I saw you

float

(Shona) -onda

knives

sticks

adjective long (not ’wide’)