Etymology

potman

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Today it means: A man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses; a waiter in a similar establishment. Full definition →

English pot ← Middle English pot ← Old French pot
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*puttaz
  2. Old Englishpott
  3. Proto-Germanic*puttaz
  4. Frankish*pott
  5. Vulgar Latinpottum
  6. Old Frenchpot
  7. Middle Englishpot
  8. Englishpot
  9. English todaypotman

From pot + -man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.