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catch

(Shona) ani

paternal grandfathers

verb sleep

paternal aunt

stab

(Shona) -cheka, -kuma

put

(Shona) huro

mucus

(Shona) nekuti

bridge

bleed

(Shona) iwe

ask

chin

(Shona) mhute

waist

thousand

skull

near

wind

noun eye

try

(Shona) -pota

pronoun all (of a number)

break

(Shona) va

fences

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

vagina

ten

twelve

fifteen

thumb

powerful

verb walk

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

guinea fowl

skulls

pig

adjective big

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

he

frog

feed

(Shona) -rema

verb eat

fight

(Shona) -diki

burned

names

fathers

eyes

(Shona) -dema

paternal aunts

leopards

chief

feathers

caves

pipes

malaria

pains

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

noun earth (soil)

chicken eggs

noun seed

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

dust

hut

thighs

pregnant, be

(Shona) ibvi

impalas

cough

(Shona) mhepo

son-in-law

noun tree (not log)

noun person (individual human)

younger brother

and

story

Please

gold

I will give you the money

girls

claws

fingernail

(Shona) gore

kudu

meat

sad

bee

dried

verb give

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

lungs

(Shona) na-, ne-

numeral two

weak

dream

(Shona) tatu

forest

few

lion

wool

bowstring

noun foot (not leg)

insects

killed, be

(Shona) ropa

sons

babies

know each other

(Shona) mafuta

owl

day

correct

fists

(Shona) -itsva