Etymology

hälleflinta

Today it means: A fine-grained rock consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, sometimes banded or striated, sometimes containing porphyritic crystals of quartz. Full definition →

Swedish hälleflinta ← Middle Low German vlint ← Old Saxon *flint
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*flint
  2. Old Saxon · derived from*flint
  3. Middle Low German · derived fromvlint
  4. Swedish · borrowed fromhälleflinta
  5. English todayhälleflinta

From Swedish hälleflinta (literally “rock-flint”), from häll + flinta (compare Old Norse flettu (grjót (“flintstone”)), from Middle Low German vlint, from Old Saxon *flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint).

Words from the same roots

Swedishhälleflinta all →

halleflinta

Proto-West Germanic*flint all →

flint

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.