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Vha dzia vhura vha vhea
they take a bow and they put it down:
A woman who challenges a man to love may say "a ni na vhura" (you are sexually useless; lit you have no bow).
Luvhabvu lwa muthu
a person's rib.
129
Lutsinga lwa vhura
the bowstring:
Muhanu wa muthu
a person's Achilles tendon.
130
Fhasi ha vhura
the bottom of the bow:
Khombwane
a name.
131
ha vhura
the top of the bow:

a name.

Sometimes the 'answers' given are respectively and Musina (i.e. Messina, where the Venda used to mine copper).
132
Vha dzhia musevhe vha vhea they take an arrow-head and they fix it [on the shaft]:
Munna a konaho
a potent man.
133
he vha pombwa hone
there where it is bound to the shaft:
Mihanu wa vhathu
people's Achilles tendons.
134
Musevhe wa ngovhe
a barbed arrowhead, [which will not come out]:
a)Vhasidzana vho kwevhaho
girls who have lengthened their labia minora nicely.
b) zwo nembelelaho kha nnyo dza vhasidzana: milevhe
: arali u songo nembeledza, vha a u sea

those things which hang down on girls' private parts: your labia minora: if you don't make them hang nicely, people will laugh at you.

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