Pott, August Friedrich, eminent philologist, born in Hanover; wrote on the Indo-Germanic languages, a work which ranks next in importance to Bopp's “Comparative Grammar”; he was the author of a number of philological papers which appeared in the learned journals of the day (1802‒1887).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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