English

flashpot

From flash + pot.

A compound of flash + pot

Middle English flasshen ‘to splash’

English flash

Proto-Germanic *puttaz ‘pot, jar’

Old English pott ‘pot’

Middle English pot ‘a cookpot’

English pot

Today it means

noun A kind of pyrotechnic device.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / flashpot