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Where does “pota” come from?

pota (Galician) comes from Old French pot, from Vulgar Latin pottum, from Frankish *pott, from Proto-Germanic puttaz, from Proto-Indo-European budn- — a kind of vessel; type of vessel; a type of...

pota (Galician): pot, cooking pot; flying squid

Definitions

  1. pot, cooking pot; flying squid

Ancestry of “pota”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpotpot; third-person singular present indicative of...
2Vulgar Latinpottum—
3Frankish*pott—
4Proto-Germanicputtazpot, jar, tub
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbudn-a kind of vessel; type of vessel; a type of...
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