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Kobold
German · medieval
"a goblin, sprite"
a mischievous goblin blamed by miners for the ore's toxic, worthless-seeming nature
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cobalt
English · 1680s
"a hard silvery-blue metallic element"
settled as the name for the metallic element once its blue pigment proved valuable
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