On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article p.hx,
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (and what I know of my
native tongue :-)) the "pod" bit comes from the Greek for foot.

I'd guessed it might mean that in some languages. But pod has meant a
container in English for some time - seed pod etc.

OK, so if oed is anything to go by, tripod as a three-legged vessel is
quoted in 1370. The earliest quote of pd as a seed-bearing fruit
appears to be in 1553.

Kostas