Nambya English

maternal grandmother

elder sisters

brothers-in-law

children

bats

people

grandchildren

kick

(Shona) nyama

ant

give birth

(Shona) murume

how

sit down

(Shona) -nhuwidza

hole

roof

excrement

(Shona) gomo

mud

noun bone

red ant

jackal

bags

fences

combs

rope

impala

pronoun 1.sg I

verb pipe

verb, intransitive drums

house

houses

crocodile

branches

well

noun bull

noun star

pronoun inclusive we

noun hair (on head of humans)

summer

brown

flea

fat

verb fat

hungry

noun cloud (not fog)

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

noun tongue (anatomical)

lightning

fight

(Shona) -diki

feed

(Shona) -rema

horns

hands

(Shona) -ipa

boats

stones

monkeys

ponds

ninety

Tomorrow I will see you

snore

(Shona) -fa

holes

eagles

shells

ghosts

fathers-in-law

bridges

five hundred

eyes

(Shona) -dema

noun fire

verb drink

Please

I know

smell

(Shona) -tya

blue

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

adjective new

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

send

(Shona) -fema

fleas

cook

(Shona) kwete

wind

fruit

husband

noun man (adult male human)

elder brother

elderly

girl

names

hunt

(Shona) tambo

find

(Shona) -pfupi

ants

bowstring

nineteen

shaman

pronoun this

recognize

(Shona) moyo

perspire

(Shona) nzara

day before yesterday

impossible

dead body

sticks

how much

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword