Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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mbita/timbita

Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61
Language name: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
Translation: pot without a neck, used for cooking, or if small for medicine. Timbita are also sometimes used like the maseku to support a cooking-pot. These pots have no necks, so that it is easier to stir the food when it is being cooked.
Noun class: 9-10
Tonality:
Reference: Earthy 1933:54
Proto
Protoform: protoform icon
Protosense: cooking-pot
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