Etymograph

English

hälleflinta

Hälleflinta comes from Swedish häll.

  1. Swedishmodernhäll
  2. Swedish, derivedmodernhälleflintaliterally ‘rock-flint’
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Swedishmodernhäll
  2. Swedish, derivedmodernhälleflintaliterally ‘rock-flint’
  3. Englishtodaysame form

The story

From Swedish hälleflinta (literally “rock-flint”), from häll + flinta (compare Old Norse flettu (grjót (‘flintstone’)), from Middle Low German vlint, from Old Saxon *flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint).

Every English word from Swedish häll

Today it means

noun A fine-grained rock consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, sometimes banded or striated, sometimes containing porphyritic crystals of quartz.

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

Etymograph / Swedish häll / hälleflinta

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