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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for September 23, 1999
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marble [n. MAR-bul]
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Marble is a kind of mottled, banded rock, and a marble can also be a
small sphere, usually made out of glass. Children play games all
around the world using these hard, shiny spheres, and there are
special names like onionskin, popeye, and clambroth for various kinds
of marbles.
Two root words combined to form our modern word. The older root was
Greek marmaros (hard stone). A similar-sounding word was marmairein
(to shine), and through association the two words became combined,
passing into Latin as marmor, then into French as marbre (marble
stone).
Passing into English, the word changed to marble. In the 17th century
small, polished spheres for children's games were made at first out of
colorful marble stone. The new toys called marbles soon included
glass spheres, as well as other stones.
Today's Cool Fact is about making marbles:
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