pottur

From Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”). Cognate with Old English pott (“pot”). More at pot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɔhtʏr/
  • Rhymes: -ɔhtʏr

pottur m (genitive singular potts, nominative plural pottar)

1. a pot
2. a pot, a pool of money
3. a hot tub, a jacuzzi

   Synonym: heitur pottur

4. (historical) a unit of measurement for liquids equal to 0.966 liters
5. (dated) a liter, especially of milk [early to late 20th century]

• 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 or n

• peli (a related unit of measurement for liquids)