The story
- Old English · derived frompott“pot”
- English todayPotton
From Old English pott (“pot”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishpott all →
pot
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A town and civil parish with a town council in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2249). Full definition →
From Old English pott (“pot”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Old Englishpott all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.