pothole

Etymology 1
From dialectal. The "cave" senses, attested since at least 1809 (as pot-hole), may be from, , of origin; perhaps related to 🇨🇬, , or. Compare 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
 * 2) A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
 * 3) * 2002, May-June, Grand River Conservation Authority (Canada) Newsletter
 * The earliest ideas on the creation of potholes are that they were associated with "moulins de glacier" (glacier mills) formed where surface streams on glaciers and ice sheets fall into holes in the ice. Water entering these surficial holes was believed to impact on the bedrock beneath creating a large pothole. The "Moulin Hypothesis", first suggested in 1874, continued to be accepted by many authors until the 1950s. However, commencing in the 1930s, other authors have suggested dissatisfaction with the moulin hypothesis, largely on the grounds that it failed to explain how ice could remain stable long enough for the "giant" potholes to form and why many potholes (like those at Rockwood) were present in large numbers.
 * 1)  A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
 * 2)  A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure-hunters or vandals.
 * 3)  A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
 * 4)  A hyperlink with text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links; a piped link.
 * 1)  A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
 * 2)  A hyperlink with text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links; a piped link.

Translations

 * Assamese: ডোং, ডোঙা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: gat in het wegdek
 * Esperanto: vojkavo, stratotruo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, baltre, goio, lacada, valagota
 * Georgian: ღრანტე
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: brothola
 * Irish: linntreog
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 甌穴
 * Macedonian: дупка
 * Manx: towl
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: buraco (na estrada)
 * Romanian:, hârtoapă
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: potthål
 * Tagalog: lubak
 * Turkish: yol çukuru
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Danish: jættegryde
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: cachafundo,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Polish: wytopisko
 * Swedish: jättegryta


 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: dziura wykopana przez łowcę

Etymology 2
From. Attested since at least 1811 (also as pot-hole), possibly continuing (attested in the plural, ).

Noun

 * 1) A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed.