Nambya English

mother

paternal grandmother

I did not give you the money

I don’t see you

I will not give you the money

elder brothers

friends

count

(Shona) zhinji

sisters-in-law

children

sons

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

people

younger sisters

girls

thick

beautiful

wipe

(Shona) -taura, -ti

beards

(Shona) rwizi

east

hidden

knife

have hiccups

(Shona) muti

verb swim

twin

verb stone

rock

noun bone

owl

crabs

noun fish

eyelashes

(Shona) -chena

combs

noun horn (of bull etc.)

virgins

pronoun 1.sg I

widow

veins

cow

crocodile

hats

fly

giraffes

turtle

buffaloes

verb intr. path (road, trail; not street)

strong

week

noun water

pronoun 2.sg You

noun sun

frog

fry

(Shona) mwana

frightened

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

hit

(Shona) mudzi

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

verb bite

fear

(Shona) -kora

song

ponds

butterflies

eighty

thirty

mothers

verb tomorrow

paternal grandfathers

names (family)

(fire)wood

another

awake

never

I will give you the money

I see you

enter

(Shona) -hombe

silent

pronoun all (of a number)

burn

(Shona) iyo

eight

first

noun black (colour)

enemies

bow

noun neck (not nape)

brother-in-law

husband

noun person (individual human)

elder brother

trail

son-in-law

ladder

fish(es)

lice, body

shaman

shamans

here

there

know each other

(Shona) mafuta

sweet

little