English

glasschord

From glass + chord.

A compound of glass + chord

Proto-Germanic *glasą ‘amber’

Proto-West Germanic *glas ‘glass’

Old English glæs

Middle English glas

English glass

Ancient Greek χορδή ‘string of gut, the string of a lyre’

English chord

Today it means

noun A crystallophone similar to a celesta that uses glass bars in place of metal ones.

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

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