The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromβύσσος“flax”
- English todaybyssolite
From Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “flax”) + -lite. By surface analysis, byss(us) + -o- + lite.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβύσσος all →
beigebyssus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.