Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue. · To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk. · To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field. · To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
Etymology tree Latin calxbor. Proto-West Germanic *kalk Old English ċealc Middle English chalk English chalk Inherited from Middle English chalk, chalke, from Old English ċealc, from Proto-West Germanic *kalk, borrowed from Latin calx (“limestone”), again borrowed from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”). Doublet of calx and cauk.
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- Inherited-form mentionchalk,chalkeenm
- Derivation mentionċealcang
- Inherited-form mention*kalkgmw-pro
- Derivation mentioncalxla · limestone
- Derivation mentionχάλιξgrc · pebble
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"To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.",
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