Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • madope;
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: mud, mire / soil
  • madakali
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: mud, mire
  • indeko/ndeko"
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: pot (generic term)
  • ingumbe/ngumbe"
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: very large pot used for storing grain, especially rice.
  • lisyala/masyala"
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: large pot used for storing grain, especially the 'lesser' grains like sorghums, millets, maize, ... also used as beer brewing and storage pots, the soaking of cassava for making flour, and even for storing water.
  • lumenyu
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: larger hemispherical pot, very wide and open at the top, used either for brewing or storage of beer.
  • umba"
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: to make pottery
  • kingumbila"
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: smaller water pot differing in shape, size, and decoration from ndeko ya mesi.
  • kikalango
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: They are used primarily as cooking pots for bananas, rice and, for the larger ones, brewing and storing beer, or they might be storage pots for grain, beer and water.
  • kifuna/vifuna"
    Language code: G67 Language: kisi
    Translation: smaller pots used largely for storing beer for the husband in the house.
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