† pot-walfishn.

Forms: 1600s–1700s pot-walfish, 1700s pot-wall-fish.

Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch pots-wal-visch.

Etymology: < Dutch †pots-wal-visch (1599; probably < pot pot n.¹ + †walvisch whalefish n., with unexplained -s , perhaps simply representing the genitive singular ending; compare slightly later potvis pot-fish n.), with alteration after pot n.¹ and fish n.¹ Compare German †Pottwalfisch (1795 or earlier; rare). Compare later pot-fish n.

Obsolete.

The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus. Cf. pot-fish n.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Physeteridae > genus Physeter (sperm whale)

trumpa1625

spermaceti whale1658

pot-walfish1694

parmacety1705

pot-fish1744

cachalot1747

physeter1753

sperm whale1839

sperm1840

macrocephalus1851

greyhead1859

physeteroid1876

1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Introd. 23 The Trumpa Whale or Spouter, may perhaps be the Physeter, and the Sperma Ceti Whale the Pot-Walfish.

1730 S. Dale Taylor's Hist. & Antiq. Harwich App. 413 The Parmacitty-Whale or Pot-Wall-fish.

1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. ii. 12 The Sperma-Ceti-Whale, or Pot-Wal Fish, so called by the Dutch, was thrown upon the western coast of Holland by a tempest in 1598.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	pot-walfish
释义	† pot-walfishn. Forms: 1600s–1700s pot-walfish, 1700s pot-wall-fish. Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch pots-wal-visch. Etymology: < Dutch †pots-wal-visch (1599; probably < pot pot n.¹ + †walvisch whalefish n., with unexplained -s , perhaps simply representing the genitive singular ending; compare slightly later potvis pot-fish n.), with alteration after pot n.¹ and fish n.¹ Compare German †Pottwalfisch (1795 or earlier; rare). Compare later pot-fish n. Obsolete. The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus. Cf. pot-fish n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Physeteridae > genus Physeter (sperm whale) trumpa1625 spermaceti whale1658 pot-walfish1694 parmacety1705 pot-fish1744 cachalot1747 physeter1753 sperm whale1839 sperm1840 macrocephalus1851 greyhead1859 physeteroid1876 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Introd. 23 The Trumpa Whale or Spouter, may perhaps be the Physeter, and the Sperma Ceti Whale the Pot-Walfish. 1730 S. Dale Taylor's Hist. & Antiq. Harwich App. 413 The Parmacitty-Whale or Pot-Wall-fish. 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. ii. 12 The Sperma-Ceti-Whale, or Pot-Wal Fish, so called by the Dutch, was thrown upon the western coast of Holland by a tempest in 1598. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1694
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