schist

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
 * 2) * 1915, Charles Will Wright, Geology and Ore Deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 87, page 29,
 * Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.
 * Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: шиста
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: skisto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: xisto
 * German: Glimmerschiefer
 * Hungarian: kristályos pala, ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: sekis
 * Ingrian: slantsa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 片岩
 * Macedonian: шкри́лец
 * Malay: syis
 * Maori: kurupaku
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: skifer
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: šist
 * Slovene: škriljevec
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: glimmerskiffer

Etymology
From, from , from.