pottur

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”). Cognate with Old English pott (“pot”). More at pot.

Noun

pottur m (pott-s, pott-ar)

1. a pot
2. a pot, a pool of money
3. (bathing) a hot tub, a small extra pool like a hot spring alongside a swimming pool
4. a liter, especially of milk

Synonyms

• (a hot tub): heitur pottur m

Derived terms

• vera vel í pottinn búið (to be well prepared)
• vera illa í pottinn búið (to be badly prepared)
• vera potturinn og pannan í (+dative, 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 and n