Nambya English

adverb not

babies

elder brothers

sisters-in-law

brides

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

pregnant, be

(Shona) ibvi

kick

(Shona) nyama

wide

cooked

put

(Shona) huro

numeral two

honey

north

noun smoke (of fire)

dig

(Shona) motsi

have diarrhea

(Shona) nyoka

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

noun nose

fourth

how

basket

sneeze

(Shona) -rara

spit

(Shona) -rwa

short

sit down

(Shona) -nhuwidza

noun egg

adjective round

excrement

(Shona) gomo

magic

noun bone

lake

year

jackal

tortoises

thief

thieves

winter

eland

ostrich

languages

rhinoceros

vagina

hats

flies

tusks

snakes

bees

forest

python

net

wool

pronoun 2.sg You

summer

name

songs

chicken

dry

in

powerful

pregnant

scared

verb walk

copulate (have sex with)

(Shona) ese

long

hard

noun tongue (anatomical)

verb gardens

stones

mothers-in-law

bucks

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

white ants (termites)

trees

noun moon

bat

lizard

all

verb die

noun hot (of weather)

blow

(Shona) a

adjective new

press

(Shona) dumbu

paternal grandfather

buy

(Shona) apo

escape

(Shona) -reba

chickens

poor

bleed

(Shona) iwe

obey

(Shona) mhuno

moons

puddle

shamans

day before yesterday

yesterday you saw me

verb know (facts)

sweet

spiders

how much

adjective long (not ’wide’)