Nambya English

elder brothers

thick

noun feather (large, not down)

boat

brains

(Shona) munyu

slow

have hiccups

(Shona) muti

mud

sharpening tool

noun fish

worms

monkey

noun seed

zebras

verb, intransitive fans

drum

vaginas

bulls

verb, transitive farm

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

summer

pregnant

huge

ill, become

(Shona) ganda

verb eat

fists

(Shona) -itsva

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

snore

(Shona) -fa

shells

axes

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

tails

arrows

child

never

go

(Shona) baba

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

because

adjective new

fingernails

(Shona) -dziya

priest

thorn

fall

(Shona) -fara

obey

(Shona) mhuno

here

yesterday

know each other

(Shona) mafuta

ankles

(Shona) -papama

crows

hearths, cooking pits/fires