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Where does “pissery” come from?

pissery (English) comes from English piss, from Middle English pisse, from Middle English pissen, from Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin pissiare, from Latin pissio — I piss.

pissery (English): A urinal, toilet

Definitions

  1. A urinal, toilet

Ancestry of “pissery”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpissUrine; An instance of pissing; Alcoholic...
2Middle Englishpissepiss, urine; Alternative form of pissen
3Middle EnglishpissenTo piss; to deliver urine from the genitals; To...
4Old Frenchpissierto piss; to excrete urine
5Vulgar Latinpissiarepresent active infinitive of *pīssiō
6LatinpissioI piss
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