Kamba and English/Lexical selection

Kam → Eng

One-to Many Mappings

Case 1
(kam) na → 
i. (eng) and
ii. (eng) but

Example i. Na syaatu ii ni nzau. → But these shoes are new.

Example ii. Mbui, Ngiti na Ng’ombe mai anyanyae anene. → Goat, Dog, and Cow were great friends.

Generalization: default is 'and'

Case 2
(kam) nthĩ → 
i. (eng) ground 
ii. (eng) earth
iii. (eng) country

Example i. Nĩyavalũkile nthĩ na yanyaĩka tũlungu tunini. → It smashed into pieces on the ground.

Example ii. Nake ngai wa matu Nyame aĩ na ũĩ w’onthe ĩũlũ wa nthĩ. → The god Nyame up in the sky had all the wisdom of the earth.

Example iii. Ĩndĩ no nginya ũsyoke nthĩ ĩla nasyaĩwe... → But thou shalt go unto my country...

Generalization: (In the corpus, country was often followed by a possessive pronoun, and it would be weird/less likely for either the ground or earth to be possessed). So if followed by a possessive pronoun, select country, and we're just making the default "earth" because earth works where ground could work, but ground often wouldn't work where earth could like above.