Nambya English

babies

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

have children

(Shona) imbwa

sons

west

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

noun green (colour)

return

(Shona) -nwa

ankle

(Shona) -tamba

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

crow

slow

hide

(Shona) shizha

left

banana

chicken egg

noun egg

duck

goose

adjective round

verb pipe

pipes

orphan

noun star

mosquito

mosquitoes

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

noun hair (on head of humans)

summer

chicken

fast

insect

have fever

(Shona) gonye

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

verb lie (on side, recline)

pass the night

(Shona) zino

verb sleep

copulate (have sex with)

(Shona) ese

bananas

chicken eggs

ducks

geese

cocks

ninety

eighty

thirty

mothers

maternal aunts

Tomorrow I will not see you

Tomorrow I will see you

snore

(Shona) -fa

shells

watefalls

waterfall

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

fathers

paternal uncles

paternal aunts

maternal grandfathers

paternal grandfathers

daughter

hearts

(Shona) -asviba

adjective small

adjective many

blue

silent

verb die

flat

verb fly

free

cloudy

chickens

young

insects

bow

baby

noun sand (opposite to following)

urine

younger brother

bowstrings

moons

eleven

fifteen

lice, body

lice, head

nineteen

puddle

shaman

shamans

twelve

female

puddles

perspire

(Shona) nzara

Yesterday I didn’t see you

float

(Shona) -onda

born, be

(Shona) ti

ankles

(Shona) -papama

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

crows

leechs