Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • mrundo
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: pot with wide neck / pot for storing flower
  • chivuwo
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: large wide-mouthed pot with neck
  • dira
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: small pot for dendi
  • kangoti
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: earthenware pot with narrow neck
  • mukhati
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: small pot
  • figha
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: vikura & c. used as stands for pots on the fire (suggested by native builders for "foundation".
  • chiguwa
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: stand for a pot (for storing food) in a hut (not at the fire place). A raised plathform of mud, e.g. part of floor of hut.
  • dongo
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: earth, mud, clay, soil
  • utoto
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: white clay used for whitewashing (paint)
  • kumata"
    Language code: N15 Language: tonga
    Translation: to stick dongo on wall; to plaster