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hardstone

noun

Etymology

Variant of Harston, with intrusive -d-.

  1. derived from *steyh₂-✻ — “to stiffen”
  2. inherited from *stainaz✻ — “stone”
  3. inherited from *stain✻
  4. inherited from stān
  5. inherited from ston
  6. formed as hardstone — “hard + stone”

Definitions

  1. Precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.

  2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hardstone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA