pot-sherd
Middle English
noun
Definitions
- pottery shard; potsherd
Etymology
Compound from Middle English pot + Middle English sherd (potsherd, piece of fired clay broken earthenware)inherited from Old English pot inherited from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (a kind of vessel, a type of vessel, type of vessel) inherited from Old English sceard (sherd, a shard) inherited from Proto-Germanic *skardą (notch, a nick, nick).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skardą
Gloss
notch, a nick, nick
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pot English
- pothole English
- potsherd English
- sherd English
- *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European
- *budn- Proto-Indo-European
- *puttaz Proto-Germanic
- *skardą Proto-Germanic
- pot Old English
- pott Old English
- sceard Old English
- sċeard Old English
- pot Middle English
- pot stik Middle English
- potage Middle English
- potell Middle English
- potful Middle English
- potte Middle English
- pottere Middle English
- pyssepotte Middle English
- sherd Middle English
- skarð Old Norse
- scart Old High German