English

grapestone

From grape + stone.

A compound of grape + stone

Frankish *krappō ‘hook’

Old French graper ‘to pick grapes’

Old French grappe ‘cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes’

English grape

Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- ‘to stiffen’

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Proto-Germanic *stainaz

Proto-West Germanic *stain

Old English stān

Middle English ston ‘a stone’

English stone

Today it means

noun A seed of the grape.

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

Etymograph / grapestone