siltstone

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English silt

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-nos

Proto-Indo-European *stóyh₂nos

Proto-Germanic *stainaz

Proto-West Germanic *stain

Old English stān

Middle English ston

English stone

English siltstone

From silt + stone.

Noun

siltstone (countable and uncountable, plural siltstones)

1. A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.

Derived terms

• metasiltstone

Translations

type of rock

• Dutch: siltsteen
• Finnish: silttikivi (fi)
• Hungarian: iszapkő
• Italian: siltite
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: siltstein m

  Nynorsk: siltstein m