Names for baskets in many languages and from the past as well as the present.
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Words meaning “BASKET”

Basket              English         the origin of this word is unknown

Bascaid            gaelic

Basced             Cornish           

Basceid            irish     

Calathus           Latin /Greek                sacred basket of Jupiter, a vase shape

Canasta            Spanish

Canaster         English                  Rush basket for packing tobacco

Canister            English            basket for bread, flowers, etc.

Canistra            Latin

Cawl                 Old English       a basket    (Cornish, a creel)

Ceawl              Anglo-Saxon

Ceofl                Anglo-Saxon

Cesta               Italian

Cesta               Spanish

Cestina             Italian

Cista                Latin

Coffer              English         (Middle English, coffre, cofre)   basket, later a box, for valuables

Colum               Latin

Cophinus          Latin

Corbeil             French                          earth filled defensive basket, (replaced by sandbags)

Corbis               Latin

Corwgl              Welsh                           basket   (hence "coracle" - a boat made of basketwork)

Creel                 Middle English and Scots      fish basket,  fish trap

Denit                Ancient Egyptian

Dorser(or dosser)         Middle English      a pannier carried on the back

Dudh                bible                            for carrying fruit

Fiscella              Latin

Fiscus                Latin

 Fooer                anglo-saxon

 Frail                 English              made of rushes, for fruit, (30 to 75lbs quantity contents)

Gulios                Greek  

Hamper             English              food basket   (U.S. a 2 bushel oyster basket)

Hanaper         English         basket for documents or money   

Hask (haske)     English         Spenser, a fish basket

Kaneon             Greek

Kelubh              Bible                             carrying fruit

Kibsey              English dialect

Kipe                  English dialect         hand basket, for catching fish, or as a measure

Kit                     English                  straw or rush basket for fish

Kophinos         Greek                           as used in feeding the 5000

Korb                German

Korbo              Esperanto

Leap               Old English            a basket

Lepis                Anglo-Saxon

Liknon             Greek

Lipp or Lippa     Old Norse            a basket

Nebet               Ancient Egyptian

Opuris              Bible, Greek                  as used in feeding the 4000

Paniere             Italian

Panierino          Italian

Pannier             French/English         usually for food or fish. also a backpack, and in pairs for horses.

Ped                  late Middle English      A pannier or hamper with a lid

Pitaka               Sanskrit

Potato molly and Potato Prickle     English         types of farm baskets

Pricket             English

Punnet            English                        small wood-chip soft fruit basket

Putchard/putcher/putt    English          salmon trap

Quppi               Cuneiform

Sal                   Bible                                for bread

Salsilloth           Bible                             for grapes

Scruttle                English                       fish trap

Shabti               Ancient Egyptian

Sellu                 Cuneiform

Skep                English                          beehive

Skeppa            Old Norse         a basket

Skibbie             English 

Skip                 English              very large general purpose basket, mining and building work

Sportula            Latin

Spyrte               anglo-saxon

Sussulu             Cuneiform

Talaros             Greek

Tandel              English              measure for fish,1419                          

Tebhah             bible                             Moses’ basket

Tene                 bible                             household basket

Trug                 English (Sussex)            wooden basket for vegetables etc.

Vannus Latin

Weel                English              fish trap

Whisket            English

Wilige               Anglo-Saxon

Willy                English             same as weel

 

 SOURCES
"Basketwork Through The Ages"  H.H.Bobart , The Basketmakers' Association ISBN 0 951111027
Various Dictionaries.