Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air. · A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. · A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. · A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *flint Old English flint Middle English flynt English flint From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.
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- Inherited-form mentionflyntenm
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- Inherited-form mention*flintazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionvlintnl
- Cognate mentionFlinsde
- Cognate mentionflintda · flint
- Derivation mention*(s)plind-ine-pro · to split, cleave
- Cognate mentionslinnga · slate, shingle
- Cognate mentionπλίνθοςgrc
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