"pot" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

IPA: /pɔt/ Forms: pottes [plural]
Etymology: From Old English pott and Old French pot, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *puttaz, from Proto-Indo-European *budnós. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|pott}} Old English pott, {{bor|enm|fro|pot}} Old French pot, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*puttaz}} Proto-Germanic *puttaz, {{inh|enm|ine-pro|*budnós}} Proto-Indo-European *budnós Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} pot, {{enm-noun|pottes}} pot (plural pottes)
  1. A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
    A cookpot (a pot used for cooking in)
    Categories (topical): Containers, Cookware and bakeware
    Sense id: en-pot-enm-noun-98RZ8D~l Disambiguation of Containers: 14 14 19 13 13 21 1 3 Disambiguation of Cookware and bakeware: 26 16 19 8 7 18 1 5
  2. A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
    A pot used for storing substances (especially food or water)
    Categories (topical): Containers
    Sense id: en-pot-enm-noun-4GJ1ROJP Disambiguation of Containers: 14 14 19 13 13 21 1 3
  3. A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
    A pot used for ladling or serving liquids; a beaker.
    Categories (topical): Ceramics, Containers
    Sense id: en-pot-enm-noun-ksnjCQ1O Disambiguation of Ceramics: 8 8 11 11 24 21 2 15 Disambiguation of Containers: 14 14 19 13 13 21 1 3
  4. A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
    A measurement for the quantity of liquids.
    Categories (topical): Ceramics, Containers, Units of measure
    Sense id: en-pot-enm-noun-3yfXxa~h Disambiguation of Ceramics: 8 8 11 11 24 21 2 15 Disambiguation of Containers: 14 14 19 13 13 21 1 3 Disambiguation of Units of measure: 11 10 15 37 4 18 2 4
  5. A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
    A pot of a certain material or manufacture:
    A ceramic pot or vessel.
    Categories (topical): Ceramics, Containers
    Sense id: en-pot-enm-noun-Edxj49Ue Disambiguation of Ceramics: 8 8 11 11 24 21 2 15 Disambiguation of Containers: 14 14 19 13 13 21 1 3
  6. A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
    A pot of a certain material or manufacture:
    A pot or vessel made out of metal.
    Categories (topical): Ceramics, Containers
    Sense id: en-pot-enm-noun-An84c23U Disambiguation of Ceramics: 8 8 11 11 24 21 2 15 Disambiguation of Containers: 14 14 19 13 13 21 1 3 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 18 15 14 14 5 30 1 4 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 18 15 14 13 7 29 1 4
  7. (rare) The top of the skull. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-pot-enm-noun-xRDd88qr
  8. (rare) A shard of earthen material. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Ceramics
    Sense id: en-pot-enm-noun-amEcDx1y Disambiguation of Ceramics: 8 8 11 11 24 21 2 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: potte, pott, poot, pote Related terms: pot stik, potage, potager, potell, poteller, potful, pottere, pyssepotte

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.