Etymograph

English

exoskarn

From exo- + skarn.

Formed from exo- + skarn

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out of’

Proto-Hellenic *eks

Ancient Greek ἐκ ‘Out of, from’

Ancient Greek ἔξω ‘outer’

English exo-

Proto-Indo-European *sekH- ‘to separate, cut off, distinguish’

Proto-Indo-European *sóḱr̥ ‘dung, excrement’

Proto-Germanic *skarną ‘filth, dung’

Old Norse skarn

Swedish skarn ‘skarn, filth’

English skarn

Today it means

noun A skarn of igneous origin that occurs at and outside the granite that produced it, and is an alteration of wall rock.

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

Etymograph / exoskarn