From en.wiktionary.org:
[Flint]
** English
[flint (disambiguation)] [lang=en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en] (compare [nl], [nl], [de],
[de], [da]), from [en] (compare [ga], [grc]), from [ine-pro]. More at split.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidal ly and generate s spark s when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1840 | title=Philosophical Magazine | page=365
|passage=Some of the enormous fragments of chalk which are interstratified
with drift have not only layers of undisturbed FLINTS, but also sandpipes in
the middle of them, or cylindrical cavities filled with sand and gravel
[...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1916 | author=Allen Jesse Reynolds; Wilson Straley | title=The Archaeological Bulletin | volume=7-9 | page=3
|passage=In a cornfield on one side flakings of FLINT are numerous.}}
1. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint , used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker .
2. A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter , etc.
3. A type of maize / corn with a hard outer hull.
4. [en] Anything figuratively hard.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|eccentric flint |fix someone's flint |Flint |flint corn |flint
disease |flint-eyed |flinthead |flint-hearted |flintify |flintiness
|flintknapper |flintknapping |flintless |flintlike |flintlock |flint mill
|flint paper |flintstone |flintware |flintwood |flintwork |flintworker |flinty
|gunflint |iron flint |nonflint |semiflint |skin a flint
}}
**** Translations
[hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [normal] [de] ; [dated] [de] , [de] ; [scientific] [de]
- Greek:
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] [archaic, chiefly in compounds]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Moksha: [mdf]
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Newar: [new]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Oneida: [one]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pacoh: [pac]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Pawnee: [paw]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Saanich: [str]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] [dated]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pawnee: [paw]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] [old]
- Volapük: [gun] [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[small cylinder]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:WebMineral]
- [R:mindat]
[en]
** French
*** Noun
[m]
1. flint glass
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Old English
*** Etymology
From [ang], from [ang]
*** Pronunciation
- [flint]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [ang] [en]
2. * C. 995 , Ælfric, _Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice_ (see https://archive.org/stream/grammatik00aelfuoft#page/n27/mode/2up)
3. *: [ang]
**** Derived terms
- [ang]
[ang]
** Polish
*** Pronunciation
[pl-pr]
*** Noun
[pl]
1. [pl]
** Swedish
*** Etymology 1
[sv].
**** Noun
[c]
1. a bald head (or bald portion of the head)
***** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-ar]
*** Etymology 2
[sv].
**** Adjective
[peri]
1. [sv] bald (having a bald head)
***** Declension
[2=flint]
**** See also
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]