Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • nkhama"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: red soil (used to paint a pot)
  • uzira"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: black soil (used to paint a pot)
  • lunjo"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: part of broken pot where the pot is built on
  • kukuluwuzira"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: to smooth a pot in the inner part / outer part
  • kwanika"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: to dry a pot
  • kotcha"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: to burn a pot in the fire
  • lilota"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: fire construction in which the pots are burnt
  • kuyipula"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: to take a readily burnt pot out of the fire
  • manthu"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: tool with which the potter polishes a burnt pot (banana leaves)
  • kukulunguzira"
    Language code: M31 Language: nkhonde
    Translation: to glaze a readily burnt pot