Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • moritsoana"
    Language: southern Sotho Translation: small beer pot, also used for storing small quantities of grain
  • likona"
    Language: southern Sotho Translation: drinking pot
  • mopotjoana"
    Language: southern Sotho Translation: pot for eating porridge, used for other purposes as well
  • ipoto/iimpoto"
    Language: ndebele (South Africa) Translation: pot
  • inkonga"
    Language: xhosa (mpondo) Translation: bag-shaped pot with short, straight everted neck formed with a well-defined point of inflection, cut rim and flattened base. Height about 22cm. Decorated with graphic design and colour. Used for small amounts of foodstuffs, such as grain used in beermaking, thin porridge, or light beer; for use by important people
  • ngquai"
    Language: xhosa (mpondo) Translation: bowl for eating impotulu and other liquid foos, 4 in. edges
  • ukwenza
    Language: xhosa Translation: to make pots
  • ivazi/amavazi"
    Language: zulu Translation: vase
  • ibhodwe"
    Language: zulu Translation: pot
  • umancishane"
    Language: zulu Translation: small drinking pots
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