Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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yumba

Language code: E55
Language name: kamba
Translation: clay, collected by the potter from a hole which she has dug near an erosion channel in the hillside a short distance below her home. Three different coloured clays are collected, a "black" clay, a "red" clay and a "white" clay.
Noun class: 5
Tonality:
Reference: Brown 1972:25; Brown 1989d:93
Proto
Protoform: protoform icon
Protosense: pottery clay
Cross references
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