hälleflinta

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Hälleflinta

Etymology

From Swedish hälleflinta (literally rock-flint), from häll + flinta (compare Old Norse flettu (grjót (flintstone)), from Middle Low German vlint, from Old Saxon *flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint).

Noun

hälleflinta (uncountable)

  1. A fine-grained rock consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, sometimes banded or striated, sometimes containing porphyritic crystals of quartz.

References

  • flinta”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (in Swedish), 1937