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Nickel

2 stages from German to English.

Today it means a hard, silvery-white metallic element, or informally a five-cent coin
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Stage 1 of 2
kupfernickel
German · 1700s
"false copper, devil's copper"
literally devil's copper, from Nickel (a mischievous sprite), blamed for ore that yielded no copper
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Stage 2 of 2
nickel
English · 1750s
"a hard silvery-white metallic element"
settled as the name for the silvery-white metallic element
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