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Pote

//pəʊt// name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    To push, thrust. obsolete
  2. 2
    To poke (with a stick etc.).

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English poten, from Old English potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stab, push, poke”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to plant”), Norwegian Nynorsk pota (“to poke”). More at put.

Etymology 2

English surname, possibly adapted from German Pothe, a variant of the surname Poth.

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