βήρυλλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Indic forms like Pali veḷuriya or Prakrit 𑀯𑁂𑀭𑀼𑀮𑀺𑀅 (verulia), from Dravidian, probably named after Velur (modern day Belur) in southern India.[1]
The variants βηρύλλιον (bērúllion) and βηρύλλιος (bērúllios) reflect the source veruḷiya more faithfully than βήρυλλος (bḗrullos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bɛ̌ː.ryl.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbe̝.ryl.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβi.ryl.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ryl.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ri.los/
Noun
βήρυλλος • (bḗrullos) f (genitive βηρύλλου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ βήρυλλος ho bḗrullos |
τὼ βηρύλλω tṑ bērúllō |
οἱ βήρυλλοι hoi bḗrulloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βηρύλλου toû bērúllou |
τοῖν βηρύλλοιν toîn bērúlloin |
τῶν βηρύλλων tôn bērúllōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βηρύλλῳ tōî bērúllōi |
τοῖν βηρύλλοιν toîn bērúlloin |
τοῖς βηρύλλοις toîs bērúllois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν βήρυλλον tòn bḗrullon |
τὼ βηρύλλω tṑ bērúllō |
τοὺς βηρύλλους toùs bērúllous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βήρυλλε bḗrulle |
βηρύλλω bērúllō |
βήρυλλοι bḗrulloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βηρύλλιον (bērúllion)
- βηρύλλιος (bērúllios)
- βηρυλλιολίθος (bērulliolíthos)
Descendants
- Greek: βήρυλλος (víryllos)
- → Amharic: ብርሌ (bərəlle)
- → Old Armenian: բիւրեղ (biwreł)
- Armenian: բյուրեղ (byureġ)
- → Old Georgian: ბჳრილიონი (bwirilioni)
- → Ge'ez: ብርሌ (bərəlle), ቢረሌ (birälle), ብረሌ (bərälle)
- → Sebat Bet Gurage: ብርሌ (bərəlle)
- → Latin: bēryllus, bērillus, berullus (see there for further descendants)
- → Tigre: ብርሌ (bərəlle)
- → Tigrinya: ብርሌ (bərəlle)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βήρυλλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212
Further reading
- “βήρυλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βήρυλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βήρυλλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G969 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Franke, Otto (1893) “Beziehungen der Inder zum Westen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[1], volume 47, page 600
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 106a
- βήρυλλος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos, “beryl”).
Noun
βήρυλλος • (víryllos) f (uncountable)
Declension
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | βήρυλλος (víryllos) |
| genitive | βηρύλλου (virýllou) |
| accusative | βήρυλλο (víryllo) |
| vocative | βήρυλλε (vírylle) |
Further reading
- βήρυλλος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el