description by association: Bopa - create, shape, form
collection of terms
Boraga - stiff mud
Letlapa - A stone/rock
Kgabisa - To decorate/to make beautiful
Kgaba - To dress well/beautifully
Besiwa - Is being baked/fired in a kiln
Epiwa - being dug
Mmu - Soil, dirt, earth
Thuga - To pound/break/crush (with a stone)
Letsopa - Clay
Thubega - To break/shatter/crack
Khuti - A dug hole
Bankanya - To fix/repair
Baya - To put (away)
Sekotlolo - A dish/plate/bowl
Molapong - At the river
Sila - To grind/make fine
collection of terms
Kika - Mortar (of a mortar and pestle: used especially for grinding i.e meat, sorghum, etc)
Nama - Meat
Tshotlho - Meat pulp/shredded beef/pulled beef/pounded beef
Tlhobola - to remove husks; pound grain in a mortar; to remove roughage.
Motshe - Pestle (of a mortar and pestle: used especially for grinding i.e meat, sorghum, etc)
Dilo - Things
collection of terms Kika: Mortar (of a mortar and pestle: used especially for grinding i.e meat, sorghum, etc); a hollowed out pounding block
Motshe: Pestle (of a mortar and pestle: used especially for grinding i.e meat, sorghum, etc); a stamping/pounding stick
collection of terms Tlatla - A basket/bowl weaved/plaited from grass (mokhasi), used for storage
Oumama - Grandmother
Mokhasi/mokhase - A type of rush (found by rivers) used to make an assortment of Tswana artefacts (i.e motlhotlho, moseme)
Tlhaga - Grass
Oumamagagwe - His/her grandmother
description by association: Setilo - A place to sit, stay… collection of terms Dikgwele - Rhiems (Strips of rawhide)
Shugiwa/Sugiwa - To bray skins, or (plait) rhiems
Kgomo - Cow
Dikologa - To go around (something), to revolve, to turn
Mahura/mafura - Fat
Kao - A rhiem used for fastening an animal's legs.
Hapang - Ties, binds, wraps around
Smoko - A whip
Letlalo - Skin
description by association: Tlhaga - that which appears, is alert, stands
collection of terms Smoko/Seme - whip
Logong/Legong - wood; timber
Setlhare - a tree; a medicine
Tlhaga - grass; standing grass; pasture
Tsewa - Retrieved (from); taken (from)
Molapong - at the river
collection of terms Leselo/Loselo - Wide flat winnowing basket; A basket sieve
Mabele - sorghum; grain
Olosa/fefera/hehera - winnow/sift
Dinawa - beans
Tsenya - put in, insert
Kolomaka - to clean
Hatshe - On the ground/floor
Namile - Spread out; stretch oneself, as in sleep/rest
Grain Sieve Leselo/Loselo
collection of terms Leselo/Loselo: Wide flat winnowing basket; A basket sieve
‘Sef’/sefo: sieve
Dilonyana: small things
Sentse e dirisiwa?: still being used?
Efficient: e ya kgona; e ya bereka; nonofa
