different between rother vs pother

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ð?/

Etymology 1

From Middle English rother, ruther, reother, from Old English hr?þer, hr?þer, byforms of hr?þer, hr?þ (“neat; ox”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunþaz, *hrinþaz. Cognate with Dutch rund (“ox”), German Rind (“bovine; beef”).

Noun

rother (plural rothers)

1. (obsolete) A horned animal, especially an ox.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rother, from Old English r?þor. See rudder.

Noun

rother (plural rothers)

1. A rudder.

Derived terms

• rother nail

Anagrams

• rethor, rhetor

German

Adjective

rother

1. inflection of roth:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English r?þor; compare rowen.

Alternative forms

• rodder, rothre, ruder, rothyr, rothir, rothar, roþer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro?ð?r/, /?ro?d?r/

Noun

rother (plural rothers)

2. A rudder or till; a steering implement for a ship.
3. An oar; a long stick used for a boat's propulsion.
4. (rare) One who steers a boat (i.e. using a rudder)
5. (rare) A stick for mixing malt during brewing.
6. (rare, figuratively) An administrator or director.

Descendants

• English: rudder, rother
• Scots: rudder, ruther, ruder

References

• “r??ther, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Etymology 2

From Old English hr?þer, hr?þer.

Alternative forms

• ruþer, ryther, reother, ruther, rethur, roþer, reoþer, reþer, riþer, rether, ruðer, reðer, rither, rodder, rudder

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ruð?r/, /?r?ð?r/, /?rið?r/, /?r?ð?r/

Noun

rother (plural roþers or rothern)

2. Any kind or gender of bovine or bovid.

Descendants

• English: rother

References

• “rother, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Compare Dutch peuteren (“to rummage, poke”), and English potter, pudder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ð?/, /?p?ð?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(?)
• Rhymes: -?ð?(?)

Noun

pother (countable and uncountable, plural pothers)

1. A commotion, a tempest.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear III.ii:

     Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads, / Find out their enemies now.

   • 1941, Lewiston Morning Tribune, 14th of May:

     (name of the article) Flight Of Hess Causes Pother Among Germans

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 5,

     After some years there came a time when the Queen seemed to be ill and there was a great deal of bustle and pother about her in the castle and doctors came and the courtiers whispered.

Translations

Verb

pother (third-person singular simple present pothers, present participle pothering, simple past and past participle pothered)

1. (intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
2. (transitive) To puzzle or perplex.

Anagrams

• Thorpe, Topher, tephro-, thorpe