Nambya English

maternal aunt

I don’t know

daughters-in-law

have cold

(Shona) inda

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

people

grandchildren

bad

verb kill

beards

(Shona) rwizi

ant

west

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

chin

(Shona) mhute

comb

(Shona) sei, -ngani

weak

noun bark (of tree)

buck

they

adjective round

jackal

jackals

monkey

noun horn (of bull etc.)

noun dog

animal

pipes

widow

languages

cow

leopards

crocodile

vagina

flies

meat

buffalo

baboon

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

net

bridge

have fever

(Shona) gonye

old

sing

(Shona) -funga

verb lie (on side, recline)

pass the night

(Shona) zino

cry

(Shona) amwe

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

lightning

garden

sick

freeze

(Shona) murume

stones

geese

vomit

years

eighty

flowers

claws

shells

ghosts

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

maternal grandfathers

seven hundred

tails

waists

ladders

verb drink

numeral one

four

with

verb today

leave

(Shona) nyanga

adjective many

tired

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

near

verb die

flat

hot, be

(Shona) ruva

noun red (colour)

five

first

paternal aunt

dark

sell

(Shona) -furidza

noun woman

singer

urine

names

find

(Shona) -pfupi

bowstring

lice, head

yesterday you saw me

ant hills

spiders

dead body

chins

(Shona) denga

huts

hearths, cooking pits/fires