Noun: potlood
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like potlood
dieplood,
bijenbrood,
gehaktbrood,
boerenbrood,
gerstebrood,
potlood,
naanbrood,
volkorenbrood,
stempotlood,
kamernood,
suikerbrood,
steenrood,
zinklood,
wenkbrauwpotlood,
lakenlood,
roggebrood,
tarwebrood,
afbakbrood,
worstenbrood,
knäckebrood, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From pot (“pot”) + lood (“lead”). Originally it was a name for graphite, used for glazing pots, which was misidentified as a form of lead. Compare English black lead.
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