Etymology

Edelstein

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Today it means: A surname from German. Full definition →

German Edelstein ← Middle High German stein ← Old High German stein
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The story

  1. Germanedel
  2. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*steyh₂-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*stóyh₂nos
  5. Proto-Germanic*stainaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*stain
  7. Old High Germanstein
  8. Middle High Germanstein
  9. GermanStein
  10. GermanEdelstein
  11. English todayEdelstein

Borrowed from German Edelstein.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.