Lith
/lɪθ/noun
A combining form meaning "stone," used in scientific and technical words.
Did you know?Its deepest ancestor is the Proto-Indo-European root * leyh₂-* meaning "stone," which also lies behind words like *flint* and *lithic* in the long history of stone-words.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*leyh₂-
“stone”
Ancient Greek
Greek
λίθος (líthos)
“stone, rock”
Late Greek
Greek
-λιθος (-lithos)
“stone; used in compounds”
Modern English
English
lith
“combining form meaning stone”