"pot-sherd" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: pot-sherds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pot-sherd (plural pot-sherds)
  1. Alternative form of potsherd Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: potsherd
    Sense id: en-pot-sherd-en-noun-xP~swC2K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Middle English]

Etymology: From pot + sherd, from pot, pote, potte (“a container, pot, vessel; especially an earthenware vessel”) (from late Old English pot, pott (“a pot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”)) + sherd (“piece of fired clay or broken earthenware; potsherd”) (from Old English sceard (“a shard, sherd”), from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“a nick, notch”)). Etymology templates: {{compound|enm|pot|sherd}} pot + sherd, {{inh|enm|ang|pot}} Old English pot, {{inh|enm|ine-pro|*budn-||a type of vessel}} Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”), {{inh|enm|ang|sceard||a shard, sherd}} Old English sceard (“a shard, sherd”), {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*skardą||a nick, notch}} Proto-Germanic *skardą (“a nick, notch”) Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|head=pot-sherd}} pot-sherd
  1. pottery shard; potsherd Synonyms: pot scarth, pot scherd, pot-shō̆rd
    Sense id: en-pot-sherd-enm-noun-9ao95t42 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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