Editing Beryl (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''beryl'' – {{langx|enm|beril}} – is borrowed, via {{langx|fro|beryl}} and {{langx|la|beryllus}}, from [[Ancient Greek]] βήρυλλος ''bḗryllos'', which referred to various blue-green stones,<ref name="mindat.org"/> from [[Prakrit]] ''veruḷiya'', ''veḷuriya'' 'beryl'<ref name=Skeat-1993>{{cite book |first1=Walter W. |last1=Skeat |year=1993 |title=The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology |publisher=Wordsworth Editions |isbn=978-1-85326-311-8 |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDhGlKL3h00C&pg=PA36}}</ref>{{efn|
Compare ''veruḷiya'' and ''veḷuriya'' to the pseudo-[[Sanskrit]]ization [[wikt:वैडूर्य|वैडूर्य]] ''vaiḍūrya'', meaning either [[Cymophane|"cat's eye"]] (gem), generic "[[gemstone|jewel]]", or "[[lapis lazuli]]" (gem). The [[folk etymology]] explains the gem name as meaning "[brought] from [the city of] [[Vidura|Vidūra]]".<ref name=Skeat-1993/>
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which is ultimately of [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]] origin, maybe from the name of [[Belur, Karnataka|Belur]] or ''Velur'', a town in [[Karnataka]], southern [[India]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=beryl |dictionary=[[Merriam-Webster]] |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beryl |access-date=January 27, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009130722/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beryl |archive-date=October 9, 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The term was later adopted for the mineral beryl more exclusively.

When the first [[Glasses|eyeglasses]] were constructed in 13th-century Italy, the lenses were made of beryl (or of [[Quartz|rock crystal]]) as glass could not be made clear enough. Consequently, glasses were named ''Brille'' in German<ref>"Brille", in: Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalisierte und von Wolfgang Pfeifer überarbeitete Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, <https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Brille>, retrieved 9 August 2024.</ref> (''bril'' in Dutch and ''briller'' in Danish).