Where does “pütte” come from?

pütte (Middle Low German) comes from Old Saxon putti, from Proto-Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus, from Latin -al — noun-forming suffix.

pütte (Middle Low German): wet hole, spring, cave

Definitions

  1. wet hole, spring, cave

Ancestry of “pütte”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxonputti—
2Proto-Germanic*puti—
3Latinputeuspit, dungeon; well; cistern
4Latin-alnoun-forming suffix

Words derived from “pütte”

Every word from Latin -al →