pot-sherd

== English == === Noun === pot-sherd (plural pot-sherds) Alternative form of potsherd. == Middle English == === Etymology === From pot +‎ sherd, from pot, pote, potte (“a container, pot, vessel; especially an earthenware vessel”) (from late Old English pot, pott (“a pot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”)) + sherd (“piece of fired clay or broken earthenware; potsherd”) (from Old English sceard (“a shard, sherd”), from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“a nick, notch”)). === Noun === pot-sherd pottery shard; potsherd ==== Alternative forms ==== pot scarth pot scherd pot-shō̆rd ==== Descendants ==== English: potsherd === References === “pot-shō̆rd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 November 2017. “potsherd” in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 8th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1973 (1974 printing), →OCLC.