Schellack

German

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch schellak, English shellac (“scale lac, lac thin like scales”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

Schellack m (strong, genitive Schellackes or Schellacks, plural Schellacke)

  1. shellac

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Schellack”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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