Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • ib&umb&a"
    Language code: D43 Language: nyanga
    Translation: argile de poterie (sans sable)
  • ib&umb&a-t&ak&a"
    Language code: D43 Language: nyanga
    Translation: argile ordinaire
  • ebomba"
    Language code: D54 Language: bembe
    Translation: argile / la poterie
  • bumba"
    Language code: E44 Language: zanaki
    Translation: clod, lump
  • riumba;
    Language code: E51 Language: Gikuyu
    Translation: potting clay / the finished product is a perfectly smooth, even, fine sand, which is stored for futur use in a half calabash/ potter's sand, prepared mixture of sand and clay
  • yumba"
    Language code: E55 Language: 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.
  • y~umba"
    Language code: E62a Language: Macame
    Translation: 1. Töpfererde, 2. GröBe und Gestalt, Form eines Menschen (beides von -umba)
  • ibumba/mabumba"
    Language code: F11 Language: tongwe
    Translation: clay
  • 4iš0umba"
    Language code: F21 Language: sukuma
    Translation: clay soil
  • ivumba/mavumba"
    Language code: F22 Language: nyamwezi
    Translation: Ton-Erde