Etymology

geyserite

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Today it means: A type of stone, a mixture of quartz and opal deposited by a geyser as it precipitates out of the boiling water. Full definition →

English geyser ← Icelandic Geysir ← Old Norse geysa
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰew-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*geusaną
  3. Proto-Germanic*gausijaną
  4. Old Norsegeysa
  5. Icelandicgeysa
  6. IcelandicGeysir
  7. Englishgeyser
  8. English todaygeyserite

From geyser + -ite.

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