Etymology

flinty

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Today it means: Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint. Full definition →

English flint ← Middle English flynt ← Old English flint
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*flint
  2. Old Englishflint
  3. Middle Englishflynt
  4. Englishflint
  5. English todayflinty

From flint + -y.

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