Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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imbiza

Language code: S42
Language name: zulu
Translation: any large pot, but more particulary for the large spherical pots used in the brewing of beer. These may be as much as two feet in diameter/ the largest of the traditional pots, undecorated, used for cooking and capable of holding up to 40 litres of fermented utshwala, the sorghum-derived traditional beer
Noun class: 9-10
Tonality:
Reference: Schofield 1943:258; Levinsohn 1984:80
Proto
Protoform: protoform icon
Protosense: cooking-pot
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