Nambya English

mother-in-law

I don’t know

sisters

have cold

(Shona) inda

bald

noun feather (large, not down)

ant

noun night

noun green (colour)

dig

(Shona) motsi

need

(Shona) nzeve

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

noun liver

fourth

verb sit

eagle

buck

magic

ocean, sea

scratch

(Shona) -rutsa

bag

rope

money

noun dog

fan

ostrich

widow

leopards

bulls

meat

noun bird

pythons

ground

noun rain

he

pull

(Shona) ura, matumbu

some

if

insect

drunk, be

(Shona) china

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

adjective big

verb walk

noun cloud (not fog)

pay

(Shona) rurimi

hard

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

straight

branch

rats

horns

monkeys

ducks

fists

(Shona) -itsva

butterflies

graves

forty

thirty

mothers

paternal grandmothers

hawks

maternal uncles

roofs

five hundred

every day

eyes

(Shona) -dema

ladders

bellies

(Shona) dziva

noun fire

I gave you the money

how many

quiet, be

(Shona) musana

tired

all

burn

(Shona) iyo

blunt (knife)

noun burn

happy

seven

noun black (colour)

young

fleas

insects

wind

noun neck (not nape)

noun woman

noun man (adult male human)

old person

dawn

friend

poor

names

bury

(Shona) pano

break

(Shona) imi

broken, be

pronoun this

here

close

(Shona) rini

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi