Where does “pottery” come from?
Pottery comes from Old French poterie, a noun derived from potter and the suffix -ie, referring to the craft or products of making earthenware vessels.
pottery (English): Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when...
Definitions
- Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when...
Ancestry of “pottery”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | poterie | potter |
| 2 | English | pot | A flat-bottomed vessel used for cooking food;... |
| 3 | Middle English | pot | A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel; The top... |
| 4 | Old French | pot | pot; third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | pottum | — |
| 6 | Frankish | *pott | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | puttaz | pot, jar, tub |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | budn- | a kind of vessel; type of vessel; a type of... |
Words derived from “pottery”