Etymology

surturbrand

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Today it means: A fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood. Full definition →

Icelandic surtarbrandr
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The story

  1. Icelandic · borrowed fromsurtarbrandr“black firebrand”
  2. English todaysurturbrand

Borrowed from Icelandic surtarbrandr (“black firebrand”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.