Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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Language code: K21 Language: loziTranslation: pot -
Language code: N12 Language: ngoniTranslation: pot not yet burnt in the fire -
Language code: S15 S51 S53 S61 Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copiTranslation: 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. -
Language code: S31 Language: tswanaTranslation: pot -
Language code: S32 Language: Northern Sotho (Sepedi)Translation: small pot used for cooking spinach, similar to the last but about 4,5 inches in height and 5 inches over the rim. -
Language code: S32 Language: Northern Sotho (Sepedi)Translation: a spherical pot for holding water with a slightly concave neck, of various sizes up to 10 inches in height and 12 inches over the rim. These pots are usually decorated. -
Language code: S33 Language: southern SothoTranslation: pot, kastrol -
Language code: S41 Language: xhosa (mpondo)Translation: very large barrel-shaped pot with cut rims. Height 58-62 cm. Undecorated with exception of rim which may be notched. Bound with bark cord to strenghten. Used for fermenting and storing beer. Formely an earthen pot for cooking as distinguished form an iron one / a beer pot about 3 ft. high and 2 ft. diameter. -
Language code: S42 Language: zuluTranslation: 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 -
Language code: S43 Language: swatiTranslation: big clay pot; medicine / ein GefäB für Flüssigkeiten und zum Vergären von Nkanye-saft