pott

pott (plural potts)

1. Obsolete form of pot.

Unknown. Possibly from originally bearing a watermark of a pot or from a manufacturer's or merchant's name.

pott (uncountable)

1. An old size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

   pott paper

• pott octavo, pott quarto etc, from octavo, quarto etc.

• T-top, TOTP, topt

From Middle Low German pot, put.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpotʲː/

pott (genitive poti, partitive potti)

1. pot

pott

1. indefinite accusative singular of pottur

pott

1. alternative form of pot

From Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”)

• IPA^(key): /pott/, [pot]

pott m

1. pot

Strong a-stem:

• English: pot, pott

From Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”). Doublet of potta.

pott c

1. (gambling) pot, kitty

• pott in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• pott in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)