Nambya English

brothers

singers

sisters-in-law

children

bats

younger brothers

put

(Shona) huro

bad

raw

verb see

noun feather (large, not down)

beards

(Shona) rwizi

noun night

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

give birth

(Shona) murume

chin

(Shona) mhute

noun liver

how

noun knee

verb dead

nine

banana

duck

cock

noun ash(es)

right

zebras

animal

malaria

cow

giraffe

question what?

ripe

week

hundred

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

noun eye

adjective name

chicken

flea

huge

speak

(Shona) -uraya

long

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

verb bite

have itch

(Shona) sango

verb eat

twins

hands

(Shona) -ipa

chicken eggs

vomit

female

ponds

seventy

verb tomorrow

Tomorrow I will see you

watefalls

waterfall

paternal uncles

paternal grandfathers

tails

daughter

other

month

months

never

go

(Shona) baba

bat

now

adjective small

many

adjective many

lizard

wet

pronoun all (of a number)

choose

(Shona) kupi

seven

cut

(Shona) shoma

escape

(Shona) -reba

cook

(Shona) kwete

hunter

baby

groom

noun mouth

noun woman

sister

back

(Shona) jenaguru

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

younger brother

younger sister

bleed

(Shona) iwe

hunt

(Shona) tambo

find

(Shona) -pfupi

puddle

female

puddles

verb come

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword

hearths, cooking pits/fires