pottur
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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
- (bathing) a hot tub, a small extra pool like a hot spring alongside a swimming pool
- a liter, especially of milk
Declension[edit]
declension of pottur
Synonyms[edit]
- (a hot tub): heitur pottur m
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, n