Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • -konshe
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: to knead clay (so as to remove clods)
  • -kampika
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: to be beaten, kneaded (the clay is well kneaded)
  • -senamika"
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: to make pottery with wide opening, to enlarge opening
  • -kulungila"
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: to polish, smooth over, give finishing touch to a pot
  • lukulungilo/nkulungilo"
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: a small smooth stone used for polishing pottery before baking it
  • cikololo"
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: a small iron used in scraping and smoothening an unbaked pot
  • -kolola"
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: to scrape remains from pot; to polish pottery with small stone; ...
  • -kubila"
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: to level the ground; to polish pottery, making it smooth and even; ..
  • cisebele"
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: a smooth block of hardened clay used as stand for modelling pottery, or small excavation in which pottery is roughly shaped out; ...
  • mutumba"
    Language code: M42 Language: bemba
    Translation: clay pot not yet baked
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