Nambya English

live

(Shona) mvere

wives

sons-in-law

singers

grooms

daughters

bats

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

wide

hold

(Shona) gwati

You’re Welcome

wipe

(Shona) -taura, -ti

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

hidden, be

(Shona) mhodzi, mbeu

need

(Shona) nzeve

give birth

(Shona) murume

fourth

verb swim

yes

verb dead

fist

(Shona) -zara

rich

mud

magic

sharpening tool

guinea fowl

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

comb

rope

noun ash(es)

dream

impala

winter

elands

hippopotamus

cows

houses

cheetah

branches

hat

question what?

why

noun claw

noun flesh (meat)

birds

verb, transitive farm

week

hundred

noun leaf (botanics)

noun sun

fingernail

(Shona) gore

fat

dry

powerful

at

verb say

dream

(Shona) tatu

hard

branch

ill, become

(Shona) ganda

sick

geese

lakes

ponds

thirty

mothers

claws

cockroaches

waterfall

paternal aunts

roofs

mountains

days

son

month

noun moon

four

with

I gave you the money

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

all

six

arrive

cut

(Shona) shoma

father-in-law

escape

(Shona) -reba

bow

hunter

fruit

brother-in-law

younger brother

fifteen

shamans

here

day before yesterday

verb know (facts)

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

adjective long (not ’wide’)

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword