Etymology

cacholong

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Today it means: An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz or opal. Full definition →

French cacholong ← xal чолун
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The story

  1. xal · derived fromчолун“<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">stone</i>”
  2. French · derived fromcacholong
  3. English todaycacholong

From French cacholong, said to be from Cach (“the name of a river in Bukhara”) + Kalmyk чолун (çolun, “stone”).

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