Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • nembo"
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: distinctive decorative fringe
  • likogotero"
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: a sharp shell used to incise decorations in a pot
  • kukulungila"
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: burnish the pot with a smooth pebble (libwe)
  • kubabula"
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: to burn, to put alongside a slow wood-fire for the space of a day
  • kugoba"
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: take the pots out of the fire
  • mgombwa/migombwa"
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: long hooked sticks used to take pots out of the fire
  • kubumba
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: the pottery process as a whole / to mould (pottery)
  • ntera
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: "medicine to extinguish", a liquid bark-brew with which pots are stained while still hot
  • chaliku"
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: cooking pot (for cassave and staple porridge), wider mouthed with pronounced lip
  • kIkalango"
    Language code: P14 Language: ngindo
    Translation: cooking pot (for relishes), with a very wide mouth, with a pronounced lip
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