Shona English

pay

verb, intransitive cook

dig

pull

return

walk

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

happy

breathe

good

verb enter

sew

fear

phrase he broke his leg playing ball

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

mother

basket

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

cough

proverb (tsumo) The cow-hide eating expert was choked by a calf’s hide.

Speaker: Ignatius T. Mabasa

ghost

noun liver

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun liver

frog

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

phrase the dam is full

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun cheetah, cheetahs

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

[LL] noun abandoned home

Example: outside Mt Darwin (IM)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun lizard

verb (stem) die

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

green (colour)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

armpit

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun knee

noun louse

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

drink

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

chief

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun sand

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb (infinitive) dig

verb (infinitive) protect

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) try

verb (infinitive) wash someone

verb (infinitive) understand

verb (infinitive) wipe

verb (infinitive) sleep

far

verb (infinitive) choose

verb (infinitive) tie

verb (infinitive) arrive

verb (infinitive) receive

verb (infinitive) talk, speak, say

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb (infinitive) find

verb (infinitive) kiss

verb (infinitive) wash self

verb (infinitive) pregnant, be

ant hills

years

Dialect: English loanword

branches

pain

noun dawn

noun

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

chicken eggs

verb ostrich, ostriches

hive

bull

proverb (tsumo) Where you chase away baboons is where you discover mushrooms. (In solving a problem, opportunities arise.)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

thorn

noun tail

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

language

proverb (tsumo) The son of a king loses his honour in a foreign land (literally becomes just a servant elsewhere)

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

son

Thank You

beard

yesterday

drum

today

fly

noun warthog

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun sea, lake; seas, lakes

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

verb snake

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

bee

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

noun claw, claws

noun path (road, trail; not street)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

here

eight

five

little

six

three

thin

noun giraffe, giraffes

verb mosquitoes

phrase what is your name? (informal)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

adjective yellow (colour)

Speaker: Emmanuel Chabata

hundred

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Moenda Pureni

verb owl

phrase What’s the matter?

Speaker: Ignatius Mabasa

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