Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • ingumbe/ngumbe"
    Language: kisi Translation: very large pot used for storing grain, especially rice.
  • lisyala/masyala"
    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: kisi Translation: larger hemispherical pot, very wide and open at the top, used either for brewing or storage of beer.
  • kingumbila"
    Language: kisi Translation: smaller water pot differing in shape, size, and decoration from ndeko ya mesi.
  • kijoli/vijoli"
    Language: kisi Translation:
  • ndelele"
    Language: kisi Translation: small hemispherical pot, fairly open at the top, used either for frying meat, fish or as a bowl for mboga (relish).
  • lwansilu/nsilu"
    Language: kisi Translation: small pot used as a regular frying pot for fish, meat and cooking vegetables, beans, ...
  • lifuniko"
    Language: kisi Translation: lid/cover, shaped like the brim of a hat, used as a general lid on all pots, especially cooking pots
  • kikomelo"
    Language: kisi Translation: digging stick (iron rod with one side bladed)
  • kitumbulilo"
    Language: kisi Translation: scraping tool to further enlarge the inner space (capacity), scoop out unwanted thickness, and generally smoothen the pot on the inside
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