Nambya English

I don’t know

adverb not

singers

count

(Shona) zhinji

brothers-in-law

have

(Shona) shiri

bats

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

hold

(Shona) gwati

beautiful

knife

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

give birth

(Shona) murume

hut

weak

breathe

(Shona) ino

sew

(Shona) -nzwa

banana

rat

noun bark (of tree)

hyena

chicken egg

play

(Shona) tsoka

roof

red ant

cock

tortoise

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

noun ash(es)

winter

pipes

you (pl)

widows

veins

leopards

cheetah

warthog

bulls

noun claw

buffalo

ripe

word

wool

summer

brown

thin

then

adjective big

smooth

long

high

noun hand

have itch

(Shona) sango

freeze

(Shona) murume

rats

cocks

twenty

sharpening tools

bucks

watefalls

chiefs

maternal grandfathers

nets

frogs

eyes

(Shona) -dema

noun yellow (colour)

raise

(Shona) zamu

brooms

(fire)wood

another

salt

never

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

blue

because

pronoun all (of a number)

where

remain

(Shona) chitaka

laugh

(Shona) zai

answer

happy

free

receive

(Shona) chifuva

noun black (colour)

chickens

fingernails

(Shona) -dziya

farmer

husband

village

noun head (anatomic)

urine

eleven

puddles

recognize

(Shona) moyo

there

yesterday you did not see me

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

how much

adjective long (not ’wide’)

hearths, cooking pits/fires