The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσχιστός“splittable”
- Latin · derived fromschistos lapis“the stone that is easy to split”
- French · derived fromschiste
- English todayschist
From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχιστός (skhistós, “splittable”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.