hälleflinta

noun

A fine-grained rock consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, sometimes banded or striated, sometimes containing porphyritic crystals of quartz.

OriginSwedish hälleflinta ← Middle Low German vlint ← Old Saxon *flint →
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Meanings

nounhälleflinta (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA fine-grained rock consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, sometimes banded or striated, sometimes containing porphyritic crystals of quartz.

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*flint
  2. Old Saxon*flint
  3. Middle Low Germanvlint
  4. Swedishhälleflinta
  5. Englishhälleflinta

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).

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