Nambya English

wives

friends

have children

(Shona) imbwa

have cold

(Shona) inda

people

bald

younger sisters

thick

cooked

boiled

bad

noun feather (large, not down)

beard

(Shona) kunaya

noun smoke (of fire)

east

hidden

noun green (colour)

return

(Shona) -nwa

noun liver

slow

hut

thousand

hearth, cooking pit/fire

verb swim

fist

(Shona) -zara

noun bark (of tree)

eagle

hawk

true (not false)

cheek

(Shona) huruva

play

(Shona) tsoka

roof

magic

feet

(Shona) husiku

noun fish

bags

monkey

comb

thief

noun horn (of bull etc.)

dogs

fan

verb, intransitive fans

winter

veins

house

turtles

noun bull

forest

word

wool

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

pull

(Shona) ura, matumbu

frightened

fat

male

far

scared

run

(Shona) -ruma

pass the night

(Shona) zino

deaths

(Shona) hutsi

noun tongue (anatomical)

lightning

spears

cocks

graves

eighty

owls

mothers

no

hawks

hyenas

baboons

paternal grandfathers

salivate

(Shona) -sveta

name (family)

raise

(Shona) zamu

thorns

arrows

noun fire

salt

chew

(Shona) chii

flat

burn

(Shona) iyo

noun burn

five

cut

(Shona) shoma

sell

(Shona) -furidza

chickens

young

broom

bride

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Bengani Ncube

noun belly (lower part of body, abdomen)

younger brother

moons

pronoun this

yesterday

ant hills

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi