Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/puttaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Pre-Germanic *butnós or *budnós (“a kind of vessel, swelled-out shape”), from Proto-Indo-European *bewd- (“to swell”). Compare Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈput.tɑz/

Noun

*puttaz m

pot, jar, tub

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *puttaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*puttaz	puttōz, puttōs
vocative	*putt	puttōz, puttōs
accusative	*puttą	*puttanz
genitive	puttas, puttis	*puttǫ̂
dative	*puttai	*puttamaz
instrumental	*puttō	*puttamiz

Descendants

Old English: pott
- Middle English: pott, potte, pot
  - Scots: pott
  - English: pot
Old Frisian: pott, pot
- Saterland Frisian: Pot
- West Frisian: pôt
Old Saxon: *pott
- Middle Low German: pot
  - Low German: pot
    - → German: Pott
Frankish: *pott
- Old Dutch: pot (in placenames)
  - Middle Dutch: pot
    - Dutch: pot
      - Afrikaans: pot
- → Vulgar Latin: *pottus, *pottum
  - Old French: pot
    - Middle French: pot
      - French: pot
        → Portuguese: pote
    - → Occitan: pot
    - → Catalan: pot
      - → Spanish: pote
    - → Galician: pote, pota
Old Norse: pottr
- Icelandic: pottur
- Faroese: pottur
- Norwegian: pot, potte
- Old Swedish: potta, putta
  - Swedish: pott, potta
- Danish: pot, potte

References

Petersson, Herbert (1916), “Beiträge zur armenischen Wortkunde”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen‎ (in German), volume 47, issue 3/4, page 254