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fall

(Shona) -fara

defecate (shit)

(Shona) imwe

suck

(Shona) -baya, -junga

fathers-in-law

Yesterday I didn’t see you

butterfly

bag

blue

arm

(Shona) -erera

hole

noun hair (on head of humans)

cage

noun liver

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

sky

chest

(Shona) gore

adjective full

noun hot (of weather)

press

(Shona) dumbu

verb die

smell

(Shona) -tya

fences

grind

(Shona) hove

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

eagle

cock

guinea fowl

grave

need

(Shona) nzeve

throw

(Shona) -zorora

shoulder

hidden, be

(Shona) mhodzi, mbeu

fight

(Shona) -diki

frightened

pull

(Shona) ura, matumbu

bags

mothers

maternal grandmothers

sisters

hips

(Shona) -gomara

combs

crabs

bananas

worms

years

armpits

(Shona) -zvimba

ladders

hands

(Shona) -ipa

pipes

excrement

(Shona) gomo

noun seed

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

paternal grandmother

lizards

smells

lips

(Shona) -rudyi

priest

noun man (adult male human)

noun man (adult male human)

(Shona) murume

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

cough

(Shona) mhepo

lizard

net

salt

right

thigh

broom

daughter-in-law

and

I gave you the money

Tomorrow I will see you

blunt (knife)

why

brain

(Shona) nyanza

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

snake

hungry, be

(Shona) uswa

rotten

at

separated, be

(Shona) -seka

lung

(Shona) ne

heat

(Shona) rutanda

adjective long (not ’wide’)

speak

(Shona) -uraya

weak

grass

birds

monkeys

sweet

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

insects

verb kill

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

brothers

elder sisters

farmers

six

three

phrase he made only a partial marriage payment

(Shona) akabhadhara kusvika padanga chete

Speaker: Emmanuel Sithole

chicken egg

how much

every

tortoises

wells