Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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vh&umba

Language code: S21
Language name: venda
Translation: mould,shape, form esp. clay, when making pottery; (fig.) substitute, appoint implying rightfullness that is made, not natural)
Noun class: 15
Tonality: H-
Reference: Van Warmelo 1989:35; 466
Proto
Protoform: protoform icon
Protosense: to work clay
Cross references
BLR links: 333 , 332 , 331 , 4219 , 4220