Etymology

potty

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Today it means: A chamber pot. 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 todaypotty

From pot (“chamberpot”) + -y (diminutive suffix).

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