Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • ela"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: goblets
  • nkak"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: large, often non-portable legless urns used for storing water or boiling peanut cake fo r ceremonies and parties. It has a spherical-shape body, sometimes with slightly pointed base, and a wide mouth with a straight to everted neck
  • nyane"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: basic large portable cooking and food pot. Before the introduction of metal it was used for cooking and preparing medicine. It is now primarily used for preparing bathing medicines and heating zezan, Ricinodendron heudelottei, a 'dirty' fruit, so that its hull can be opened. It is referred to as 'the mother of pots'
  • ntson"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: smaller cooking and food pot. Before metal was used to cook sauces and prepare medicine.
  • udok"
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: smallest cooking and food pot
  • ipesle-i
    Language code: A71 Language: eton
    Translation: pot sherd
  • vi&5ek
    Language code: A72a Language: ewondo
    Translation: Ton, Erde
  • vi&5ek;
    Language code: A72a Language: ewondo
    Translation: Ton, Erde / argile blanche
  • f&5em"
    Language code: A72a Language: ewondo
    Translation: (weiBe) Farbe, Kreide, weiBe Tonerde
  • es&o&a/bis&o&a"
    Language code: A72a Language: ewondo
    Translation: Teller, Schüssel / assiette; contenu d'une assiette; disque de phonographe
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