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alone

lie (down)

(Shona) muswe

stop

(Shona) -dambura

cockroach

boiled

young bird

left

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

question what?

well

noun black (colour)

sky

young

deep

sing

(Shona) -funga

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

crab

grind

(Shona) hove

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

eagle

worm

broken, be

eleven

twelve

fourteen

hidden

hide

(Shona) shizha

dogs

noun louse

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

feed

(Shona) -rema

frightened

bags

bridges

west

paternal grandmothers

verb gardens

mother

sixty

north

legs

(Shona) -pedo

vomit

flowers

baboons

thief

mice

buck

deaf

pregnant

impala

noun air

wife

spear

noun bull

daughter-in-law

with

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

Thank You

claws

fishnet

noun blood

why

brain

(Shona) nyanza

crocodiles

fly

meat

noun ear

(Shona) nzeve

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

turn

(Shona) -wa, -donha

finish

(Shona) -dete, -nhete, -sunhu

wing

lung

(Shona) ne

noun burn

(Shona) pisa

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

throw away

(Shona) -garira

adjective long (not ’wide’)

tongues

flower

duck

grass

itches

(Shona) -omesa, -oma

dark

dirty

rope

buy

(Shona) apo

wet, become

(Shona) -verenga, -rava

bow

bows

verb come

priests

women

three

obey

(Shona) mhuno

noun breasts (female)

every day

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

sticks

cages

better

dead bodies

toes

verb hear

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole