Cherokee term for 'china clay'

[A.W. Tüting]

Thanks a lot, Blair!

Alfred

Am 20.07.2006 um 18:09 schrieb BARudes at aol.com:

> The on-line dictionary of Catawba is wrong. The words for 'clay' and 
> 'pot' in Catawba are not the same. The word for a 'bowl, dish, pot' is 
> at'us in the Saraw dialect of Catawba and it'us in the Esaw dialect. 
> The word for 'clay' is 'iNtu: with a stressed nasal-i in the first 
> syllable and a long-u in the second. The specific word for a 'clay for 
> making pots' is a compound of the word for 'clay' and the word for 
> 'bowl, dish, pot': iNt'u:tus. It is worth noting, however, that in the 
> Woccon language, another Catawban language, the word <Intom> is 
> glossed as 'pipe'. <Intom> appears to be cognate with Catawba 'iNtu: 
> 'clay'.
>
>  Blair
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