English

stellarite

Stellarite comes from English coal ‘a type of coal’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

Formed from stellar ‘starry’ + -ite ‘mineral’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- ‘to be dry, to dry’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr ‘star’

Proto-Italic *stērlā ‘star’

Latin stēlla ‘a star’

Latin stēllāris ‘of or pertaining to a star’

Every English word from English coal

noun A type of torbanite, which sparks when set on fire.

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