Nambya English

mother

paternal grandmother

I don’t see you

I don’t know

live

(Shona) mvere

singers

brothers-in-law

husbands

have children

(Shona) imbwa

verb kind

younger brothers

priests

hunters

put

(Shona) huro

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

verb kill

hidden, be

(Shona) mhodzi, mbeu

leech

comb

(Shona) sei, -ngani

noun knee

nest

ant hill

verb swim

verb dead

mice

chicken egg

goose

sharpening tool

worms

comb

combs

right

adjective cold (of weather)

eland

ostrich

ostriches

animal

pronoun 1.sg I

drum

verb, intransitive drums

cheetah

birds

python

noun hair (on head of humans)

bridge

flea

verb fat

dry

sad

verb lie (on side, recline)

lightning

branch

garden

verb eat

mice

stones

monkeys

bones

(Shona) gungwa

valleys

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

maternal aunts

mothers-in-law

wings

watefalls

paternal aunts

roofs

noun fire

Goodbye

child

other

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

how many

now

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

because

which

noun hot (of weather)

be blind

blunt (knife)

choose

(Shona) kupi

five

dirty

receive

(Shona) chifuva

sell

(Shona) -furidza

chickens

cook

(Shona) kwete

hunter

groom

noun woman

girl

fish(es)

broken, be

bowstring

bowstrings

eleven

there

adjective full

Yesterday I didn’t see you

day before yesterday

how much