Noun: karst
| Singular | karst |
| Plural | karsts |
Sample Sentences
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In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming. [1978, M. M. Sweeting, “The Karst of Kweilin, Southern China”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 144, number 2, page 200:]
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The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed. [2009 May 29, “Katherine Harmon”, in Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008^([ScientificAmerican.com]):]
Nouns inflected like karst
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from German Karst. The German term and the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst Plateau) are from Proto-Slavic *korsъ, from Italo-Dalmatian carsus (cf. Italian carso), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“hard; rock”). More at Karst.
2. The metathesis in the Slovene term precludes German borrowing from Slovene. See: German Nouns '
Karst', Italian Nouns '
carso'.
Verbs referencing "karst"
Czech Nouns
kras, Polish Nouns
kras.