Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary
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					Language code:
				
				
					S15 S51 S53 S61
                 
            
			
            
                
					Language name:
				
				
					ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi
                 
            
			
                
					Translation:
				
				
					pot without a neck, used for cooking, or if small for medicine.  Timbita are also sometimes used like the maseku to support a cooking-pot.  These pots have no necks, so that it is easier to stir the food when it is being cooked.
                 
            
	
			
                
					Noun class:
				
				
					9-10
                 
            
			
			
                
					Tonality:
				
				
					
                 
            
			
                
					Reference:
				
				
					Earthy 1933:54
                 
            
			
		
		
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					Protoform:
					 
			
			 
						
					Protosense:
					cooking-pot
			
		