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(Engels)

  1. (masculine) schist
  2. (masculine, proscribed) shale

Uitgesproken als (IPA)
[əsˈkist]
Etymologie (Engels)

In summary

Borrowed 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”).

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