Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/puttaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Of uncertain origin. Orel considers the word as borrowed from Latin buttis (“barrel”).^[1] An older theory by Petersson derives the word from Pre-Germanic *butnós or *budnós (“a kind of vessel, swelled-out shape”), from Proto-Indo-European *bewd- (“to swell”), possibly cognate to Proto-Slavic *bъdьňa (“tub, cask”) (if not a borrowing from Germanic); compare also Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈput.tɑz/

*puttaz m

1. pot, jar, tub

• Proto-West Germanic: *pott
  • Old English: pott
    • Middle English: pott, potte, pot
      • Scots: pott
      • English: pot
        • → Chichewa: poto
  • Old Frisian: pott, pot
    • Saterland Frisian: Pot
    • West Frisian: pôt
  • Old Saxon: *pott
    • Middle Low German: pott, pot
      • German Low German: Pott
      • Low German: pot
      • → Middle High German: pot
        • German: Pott
  • Old Dutch: pot (in placenames)
    • Middle Dutch: pot
      • Dutch: pot
        • Afrikaans: pot
  • → Vulgar Latin: *pottus, *pottum
    • Old French: pot
      • Middle French: pot
        • French: pot
          • → Portuguese: pote
      • → Occitan: pot
      • → Catalan: pot
        • → Spanish: pote
      • → Galician: pote, pota
• Old Norse: pottr
  • Icelandic: pottur
  • Faroese: pottur
  • Norwegian: pot, potte
  • Old Swedish: potta, putta
    • Swedish: pott, potta
  • Danish: pot, potte