Chikunda English

hide

(Shona) shizha

understand

(Shona) -pa

dig

(Shona) motsi

verb die

arrive

fry

(Shona) mwana

speak

(Shona) -uraya

adjective new

cook

(Shona) kwete

bucks

lizards

widows

owls

pregnant

rhinoceroses

spiders

elder brothers

younger brothers

fathers-in-law

duck

adjective many

cough

(Shona) mhepo

raw

eyes

(Shona) -dema

hundred

chicken egg

adjective name

yesterday

noun blood

noun blood

have cold

(Shona) inda

pronoun this

they

noun mouth

fifteen

fishnet

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

have fever

(Shona) gonye

noun rain

sniff

(Shona) -rarama

short

copulate (have sex with)

(Shona) ese

scared

sharpen

(Shona) -ziva

squeeze

(Shona) -rova, -bhura

cooked

burned

dirty

rub

(Shona) kudya, -dya

wash someone

(Shona) -sunga

sweet

sharp

rotten

right

fence

combs

sixty

twenty

verb tomorrow

money

weeks

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

birds

mouse

zebra

zebras

mosquitoes

dogs

farms

languages

spear

lions

broom

trail

in

noun tree (not log)

verb stone

baby

noun sand (opposite to following)

ant

younger sister

Please

goose

puddles

verb, intransitive drums

I know

wife

old (person)

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

eagle

noun fish

noun fish

huts

near

numeral one

six

throw away

(Shona) -garira

brain

(Shona) nyanza

blind