The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκρύσταλλος
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχανδάνω“to contain”
- English todaychadacryst
From Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “to contain”) (perhaps from the aorist stem χᾰ́δ-) + -cryst, or directly from the Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκρύσταλλος all →
crystalcrystallizecrystallurgyoikocryst
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.