Cherokee term for 'china clay'

[A.W. Tüting]

Dr. SLL wrote to me:

 > (...) I am also puzzled by the absence of the word unaker in Catawba. 
But they call clay and pot by the same sound i-to or i-tu. Could you 
ask the experts to confirm this? There is an online English-Catawba 
dictionary. I am not quite sure of the notations there. <<


This statement on Catawba 'i-to', 'i-tu' (for clay or pot) seems 
correct (the word list is to be found here: 
http://www.angelfire.com/az2/catawba/c.html).
I'm not sure whether or not SLL is maybe speculating on the similarity 
of sound to a Chinese compound word *e4 tu3 堊土 (UTF-8) which could be 
broken down as 'chalk-earth'.

Alfred
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