Etymograph

English

tripestone

From tripe + stone.

A compound of tripe + stone

Old French tripe ‘entrails’

Middle English tripe ‘a portion of a creature's entrails or organs’

English tripe

Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- ‘to stiffen’

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Proto-Germanic *stainaz

Proto-West Germanic *stain

Old English stān

Middle English ston ‘a stone’

English stone

Today it means

noun A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates, bearing a certain ressemblance to tripe.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “tripestone”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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