Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press

nasojwini ‘and in (or from) honey.’ One would not know that the
noun izinti ‘sticks’ should be looked up under -thi or uthi ‘stick’
depending upon the dictionary consulted, or that -lunyw- ‘be bitten’
derives from -lum- ‘bite,’ -khishw- ‘be taken out’ from -khiph- ‘take
out,’ and -vez- ‘bring out’ from -vel- ‘come from.’
Using the Vocabularies and Glossary
The vocabularies that appear at the end of each reading are given in
the order in which they appear in the text, and not alphabetically
(The Glossary, on the other hand, is given alphabetically.). In longer
readings the text is divided into sections with each section preceded
by a number, «x», that is repeated in the vocabulary to facilitate
location of an item. Any item that has already appeared previously in
a vocabulary is not repeated. If the reader is not familiar with a form
in a particular reading, and cannot find it in the vocabulary
concerned, then one should check the overall Glossary (p. 275).
Another reason that a particular item may not be found in a
vocabulary, even though it has not appeared before, is that it should
be easily deduced from previous knowledge. Thus, for example, if
the noun izicelo ‘requests’ were to occur in a reading, it would not
be given in the vocabulary if the singular, isicelo, has appeared
previously, since a knowledge of the noun prefixes and noun class
system should tell one unambiguously what the singular form would
be. However, we have made sure that the singulars of all nouns are
given in the Glossary.
The vocabularies and the overall Glossary have the following
structure:
ABC def, ghi (jk) [L; M; N] {P} Sx, Sy
where ABC is the Zulu form (morpheme, word or phrase), which is
given in alphabetical order. This is followed by ‘def, ghi’ which are
one or more English glosses of the Zulu. Extra information about the
meaning, such as the literal meaning of a phrase, or some
explanation is sometimes given in (jk). Grammatical information,
such as part of speech, noun class, singular or plural forms, tense,
mood and aspect are given in [L; M; N]. Useful information such as
the fact that a conjunction or auxiliary verb may require a particular
mood to follow it is also given in the square brackets. Here too,
information about the derivation of an item may be included, with
more detail sometimes being given in the Glossary than in the
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