Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes). · The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home. · A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot. · A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puttaz Old English pott Proto-Germanic *puttaz Frankish *pottder. Vulgar Latin pottum Old French potbor. Middle English pot English pot From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar; tub”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”) (from Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”)), and perhaps Armenian պույտ (puyt, “pot”) (from Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”)) and Albanian bocë (“bottle, decanter”), related either via late Proto-Indo-European or as a Wanderwort. Middle English pot gave rise to Irish pota, Scottish Gaelic poit, and Welsh pot through borrowing. Further cognates in Romance languages are via Late Latin pottus /pōtus, pottum, which either was borrowed from the Germanic word or, less likely, is its source; see more on the Proto-Germanic entry. The sense of “ruin” or “deterioration” was originally a general allusion to “being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat” (i.e. “to get wasted or done with (by someone)”). The “clean” slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.
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- Inherited-form mentionpotenm
- Inherited-form mentionpottang
- Derivation mentionpotfro · pot
- Inherited-form mention*puttazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionPotstq
- Cognate mentionpotnl
- Cognate mentionPottde
- Cognate mentionpottasv
- Cognate mentionpotturis
- Cognate mentionpottrnon
- Cognate mentionպույտhy
- Cognate mentionպոյտնxcl
- Cognate mentionbocësq · bottle, decanter
- Cognate mentionpotaga
- Cognate mentionpoitgd
- Cognate mentionpotcy
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