Grauwacke

He informed me, as we went, that the Grauwacke (Lower Silurian) deposits of the district, hitherto deemed so barren, had recently yielded their organisms in a slate quarry at Gamrie-head; and that they belong to that ancient family of the Pennatularia which, in this northern kingdom, seems to have taken precedence of all the others.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

Still other derivatives of Indo-European * wegh - are NORWAY ` northern way; northern region '[from Old Norse Norvegr] (the Modern Norwegian word is Norge); GRAYWACKE ` a kind of dark gray sandstone' [from German Grauwacke, from grau ` gray '+

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983