Contextualizebeta

sunstone

noun

Etymology

sun + stone. Compare Icelandic sólarsteinn.

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

Definitions

  1. A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.

  2. A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by…

    A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by navigators in the Viking Age and later to find the location of the sun in an overcast sky, possibly via polatization of light.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sunstone. 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