Nambya English

wives

sisters-in-law

farmers

children

people

bald

priests

grandchildren

boiled

honey

noun feather (large, not down)

west

noun night

adjective good

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

dig

(Shona) motsi

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

give birth

(Shona) murume

yes

banana

hawk

wing

cockroach

verb stone

adjective round

excrement

(Shona) gomo

mud

noun mountain (not hill)

scratch

(Shona) -rutsa

worm

dream

seeds

noun horn (of bull etc.)

impala

impalas

story

cheetah

turtle

noun bull

buffalo

bees

noun bird

forest

lions

bridge

noun water

pronoun 2.sg You

songs

flea

frightened

thin

speak

(Shona) -uraya

long

noun hand

language

verb bite

have itch

(Shona) sango

sick

forearms

(Shona) -naka

monkeys

noun grease (fat, organic substance)

thirty

flowers

maternal aunts

snore

(Shona) -fa

claws

verb, transitive embers

fathers

paternal grandfathers

frogs

brooms

month

numeral one

never

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

noun hot (of weather)

be blind

noun red (colour)

free

dirty

Thank You

first

paternal grandfather

frighten

(Shona) munhu

noun person (individual human)

noun woman

dawn

wife

noun earth (soil)

noun foot (not leg)

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

broken, be

fourteen

Yesterday I didn’t see you

yesterday you saw me

in morning

open

(Shona) muromo, mukanwa

verb know (facts)

ant hills