Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • ib&umb&a-t&ak&a"
    Language: nyanga Translation: argile ordinaire
  • ebomba"
    Language: bembe Translation: argile / la poterie
  • bumba"
    Language: zanaki Translation: clod, lump
  • riumba;
    Language: Gikuyu Translation: potting clay / the finished product is a perfectly smooth, even, fine sand, which is stored for futur use in a half calabash/ potter's sand, prepared mixture of sand and clay
  • yumba"
    Language: kamba Translation: clay, collected by the potter from a hole which she has dug near an erosion channel in the hillside a short distance below her home. Three different coloured clays are collected, a "black" clay, a "red" clay and a "white" clay.
  • y~umba"
    Language: Macame Translation: 1. Töpfererde, 2. GröBe und Gestalt, Form eines Menschen (beides von -umba)
  • ibumba/mabumba"
    Language: tongwe Translation: clay
  • 4iš0umba"
    Language: sukuma Translation: clay soil
  • ivumba/mavumba"
    Language: nyamwezi Translation: Ton-Erde
  • iwumba
    Language: wungu Translation: lump, clod
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