potter's field

A place where the indigent or the unknown are buried. A reference to the Bible, "So they conferred together and bought the potter's field with it as a burial place for foreigners" (Matthew 27:7). Primarily heard in US. The work was so grueling that a great number of immigrant laborers who built the railroads across this country ended up in some potter's field or another before the job was complete.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
PÁDraigÍN	PAW-dri-geen	Irish
Sumati	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi
Vito	VEE-to (Italian), BEE-to (Spanish)	Italian, Spanish
Wally	['weili]
Akaki	-	Georgian
Essa	-	Arabic