The story
- xal · derived fromчолун“<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">stone</i>”
- French · derived fromcacholong
- English todaycacholong
From French cacholong, said to be from Cach (“the name of a river in Bukhara”) + Kalmyk чолун (çolun, “stone”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.