zinc

zinc
zinc (n.) 1650s, from Ger. Zink, perhaps related to Zinke "prong, point;" said to have been used first by Paracelsus (c.1526) on analogy of the form of its crystals after smelting. Zinke is from O.H.G. zint "a point, jag," from P.Gmc. *tindja "tine" (Cf. O.N. tindr "point, top, summit," O.E. tind "prong, spike;" Cf. TINE (Cf. tine)).

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