different between pott vs mott

English

Etymology 1

Noun

pott (plural potts)

1. Obsolete form of pot.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Possibly from originally bearing a watermark of a pot or from a manufacturer's or merchant's name.

Noun

pott (uncountable)

1. An old size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

   pott paper

Anagrams

• T-top, TOTP, topt

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German pot, put.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pot??/

Noun

pott (genitive poti, partitive potti)

1. pot

Declension

Icelandic

Noun

pott

1. indefinite accusative singular of pottur

Middle English

Noun

pott

1. Alternative form of pot

Swedish

Noun

pott c

1. (in gambling:) pot, kitty

Westrobothnian

Noun

pott m

1. pool

Derived terms

• vötopott (“puddle”)
• djyripott (“mud pit”)

See also

• putt

References

English

Alternative forms

• motte

Etymology 1

Probably ultimately from French motte; compare motte.

Noun

mott (plural motts)

1. (US, chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. [from 19th c.]
   • about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito

     They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little, dense green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 39:

     We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers.

Etymology 2

See mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

Noun

mott (plural motts)

1. Alternative spelling of mot (“woman”)