Ndau English

paternal uncles

I did not give you the money

old people

cooked

left

cage

sharpening tools

want

(Shona) -geza

drunk, get

(Shona) shanu

pronoun all (of a number)

fence

eagle

noun mountain (not hill)

year

broken, be

eleven

fifteen

armpit

(Shona) -gwamba, -tonhodza

verb walk

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

skulls

fish(es)

adjective big

dogs

fast

verb (infinitive) rain

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

scared

mud

mothers

maternal grandfathers

valleys

fifty

ladders

feathers

money

nests

ducks

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

weeks

seven hundred

names (family)

penises

tears

languages

in

noun mouth

spear

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

noun person (individual human)

noun person (individual human)

(Shona) munhu

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

hippopotamuses

child

another

noun heart

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

make

(Shona) musoro

pronoun 1.sg I

girl

noun claw

(Shona) nzara

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

songs

crocodile

village

noun feather (large, not down)

Speaker: Lovemore Mutonga

orphan

mosquitoes

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

buffaloes

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

noun star

watch

(Shona) -sona

lung

(Shona) ne

lungs

(Shona) na-, ne-

nurse

(Shona) ziso

adjective long (not ’wide’)

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

tongues

nest

beautiful

duck

grass

all

itches

(Shona) -omesa, -oma

trap

(Shona) -sumuka, -simuka, -mira

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

frighten

(Shona) munhu

send

(Shona) -fema

urinate (piss)

(Shona) -dvinya

priests

sons

elder sisters

babies

friends

daughters-in-law

hunt

(Shona) tambo

yesterday

ghosts

boats

thumbs

bats

wash self

(Shona) -kanda

dead bodies