<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">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'.<BR>
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