Nambya English

paternal grandmother

I don’t see you

adverb not

You did not see me

enemy

count

(Shona) zhinji

grooms

bald

younger sisters

hold

(Shona) gwati

noun smoke (of fire)

need

(Shona) nzeve

dead bodies

chest

(Shona) gore

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

chin

(Shona) mhute

slow

third

hut

noun knee

hearth, cooking pit/fire

weak

mouse

hole

chicken egg

duck

cough

(Shona) mhepo

noun fish

money

winter

vein

gold

malaria

cheetahs

branches

tusks

noun star

fishnet

noun water

pronoun 2.sg You

elephant

fry

(Shona) mwana

fat

male

have fever

(Shona) gonye

adjective big

give greetings

(Shona) amai

noun cloud (not fog)

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

arm

(Shona) -erera

language

verb gardens

arms

(Shona) zuva

hands

(Shona) -ipa

chicken eggs

boats

valleys

twenty

maternal aunts

verb tomorrow

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

fishnets

noun yellow (colour)

villages

waists

son

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

now

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

near

flat

be blind

noun burn

maternal uncle

begin

(Shona) ndi, ini

young

insects

wind

baby

husband

noun person (individual human)

noun man (adult male human)

old person

wife

elder sister

sister

village

noun tree (not log)

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

urine

grandchild

bury

(Shona) pano

broken, be

hunt

(Shona) tambo

bowstring

lice, body

Yesterday I didn’t see you

open

(Shona) muromo, mukanwa

verb know (facts)

chins

(Shona) denga