Chikunda English

understand

(Shona) -pa

return

(Shona) -nwa

adjective good

adjective cold (of weather)

pull

(Shona) ura, matumbu

speak

(Shona) -uraya

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

verb fat

few

obey

(Shona) mhuno

watch

(Shona) -sona

crabs

owls

elder sister

crocodiles

adverb not

no

wives

elder sisters

sisters

younger sisters

backbone

(Shona) mwedzi

crab

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

adjective many

fourth

third

second

true (not false)

noun foot (not leg)

chest

(Shona) gore

owl

Yesterday I didn’t see you

noun hand

arm

(Shona) -erera

fourteen

perspire

(Shona) nzara

bleed

(Shona) iwe

sad

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

copulate (have sex with)

(Shona) ese

beautiful

recognize

(Shona) moyo

dawn

squeeze

(Shona) -rova, -bhura

cooked

pass the night

(Shona) zino

sweet

wash hair

(Shona) -zvuva, -dhonza

flow

(Shona) mukadzi

adjective round

right

noun tongue (anatomical)

fence

diarrhea

(Shona) moto

backbones

(Shona) nyeredzi

thirty

fences

wings

hail

trails

trail

baby

sister

younger sister

flies

fly

I did not give you the money

verb intr. path (road, trail; not street)

snore

(Shona) -fa

noun louse

louse, head

lice, head

lice, body

verb kind

eyelash

(Shona) -yero

crocodile

noun star

stars

wing

thin

noun hair (on head of humans)

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

babies