150 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Pit. Pot. 



" Snio-Goth. potia, oUafictilis; Isl. id.; Hib.pota; Belg-pot; 

 Angl. et Gall. id. Germani pot et transpositis Uteris top/ dicunt. 

 Junius derives ^o^^«; from Gr. Trorypiov, cyathus. 



There is also hec/are, poculum, a beaker; Isl. lickar ; Belg. 

 leker ; It. licchiere; Gr. inf. /^et/capioy." Ihre. 



Icel. ^'■pottr, (potus, Du Cange, from Lat. potare), a pot," 

 (Cleasby), ^y^^r, a pit, pool; Sw. potta, pot; (/raf, grufva, pit. 



Hajv. potte, pot; hule, grav, pit; 'K.'K.G:. pute; Mod. Ger. topf, 

 hafen, hrug, Imnne; grube, pit. 



Dut. and Fl. ^o^, lean; Dut. huil, mijn; Fl. mijn, pit or mine. 



A.-S. ptjt, pytt, pet, pitt, a pit, well. 



"Po^^e, oUa, urna, orca. Py^^^e, puteus, lacus. Pyt, ox flascJie, 

 where mekyl water standythe after a reyne (or plasche)." 

 Prompt Parv. 



Lat. poculum, calix, cantharus, cyathus, cupa, pot, cup ; puteus, 

 fovea, fossa, pit, well. 



It. vaso, orcio, hoccale, licchiere ; mina, poz%o. 



Sp. olla, puchero, marmita ; mina, pozo. 



'£oxt. pote, p)anella, copo, cantaro, pot, cup; cova, fossa, mina, pit. 



Fr. pot, vase, cruche, marmite, pot ; mine, puits, fosse, pit. 



Charhonnage, a colliery, 



Wei. pot, potyn, crochan, pot, crock ; twll, peol, pydew, ffos, 

 mwn, pit, mine. Gael, poite, tolg, pot ; slochd, pit. Ir. potaim 

 (hence potheen, the drink, whiskey) ; potare from root pa, to 

 drink ; pot, allied to potaim. Skeat. 



Pot is not found in Lat., It., or in Sp., though the two last 

 come near, but occurs in all the other languages brought under 

 examination ; it is certainly Celtic, Scandinavian, and Teutonic, 

 and ccurs in Port, and Fr., and as the first syllable of the Gr. 



Pit is A.-S. All the words adduced indicate depressions of 

 surface, from the pitting of the skin left by small pox to wells 

 of water, and to coal pits four hundred or more fathoms deep, 

 natural or artificial, from the naturally -formed to the fictile or 

 other pots. 



Pit is synonymous in many cases with mine. 



