pottur
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”). Cognate with Old English pott (“pot”). More at pot.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pottur m (genitive singular potts, nominative plural pottar)
- a pot
- a pot, a pool of money
- a hot tub, a jacuzzi
- Synonym: heitur pottur
- (historical) a unit of measurement for liquids equal to 0.966 liters
- (dated) a liter, especially of milk [early to late 20th century]
Declension edit
declension of pottur
Derived terms edit
- vera vel í pottinn búið (to be well prepared)
- vera illa í pottinn búið (to be badly prepared)
- vera potturinn og pannan í (be the moving spirit in an enterprise)
- víða er pottur brotinn (it is not only here that things are wrong)
- þetta er þannig í pottinn búið (the real situation is this)
- pottþéttur m, pottþétt f or n
See also edit
- peli (a related unit of measurement for liquids)