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cut

(Shona) shoma

choose

(Shona) kupi

high

other

male

mothers-in-law

I will not give you the money

I don’t know

there

paternal grandfather

put

(Shona) huro

blue

brown

rock

drum

elbow

(Shona) -pisa

summer

noun liver

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

ant hill

sharpening tools

help

(Shona) muchero

warthog

noun knee

wind

deep

adjective full

sing

(Shona) -funga

flow

(Shona) mukadzi

break

(Shona) va

thick

giraffe

live

(Shona) mvere

wash hair

(Shona) -zvuva, -dhonza

throats

hidden

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

pronoun inclusive we

pronoun 2.sg You

frog

comb

hard

zebras

sisters-in-law

chiefs

paternal aunts

buttocks

(Shona) jecha

hips

(Shona) -gomara

maternal aunt

shoulders

forty

sixty

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

in morning

feathers

north

wings

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

thieves

hut

spears

elder sister

son-in-law

smell

months

prepared, be

(Shona) bapiro

Tomorrow I will see you

I know

girls

fishnets

brains

(Shona) munyu

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

lakes

noun ear

(Shona) nzeve

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

elephants

turn

(Shona) -wa, -donha

spit

(Shona) -rwa

verb pipe

sharp

weak

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

dream

(Shona) tatu

run

(Shona) -ruma

how

laugh

(Shona) zai

little

lion

dark

dirty

trap

(Shona) -sumuka, -simuka, -mira

adjective cold (of weather)

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

noun foot (not leg)

noun red (colour)

send

(Shona) -fema

boys

three

know each other

(Shona) mafuta

every day

many

tortoises