Where does “pottage” come from?
Pottage comes from Middle English pottage, from Old French potage, combining Old French pot with the suffix -age derived from Latin -aticum.
pottage (English): A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables,...
Definitions
- A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables,...
Ancestry of “pottage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | potage | pottage; A pudding or slurry; any dish made of... |
| 2 | Old French | potage | soup; broth cooked in a pot |
| 3 | Old French | pot | pot; third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | pottum | — |
| 5 | Frankish | *pott | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | puttaz | pot, jar, tub |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | budn- | a kind of vessel; type of vessel; a type of... |