1st February 2010, 03:55 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:Bead doesn’t seem to be a very old word, you might expect that it would go back to the Stone age. Does anybody know what bead was in latin?
No. Bead is derived from the A-S 'bede' as in bidden or praying. The common term in German or French is 'perlen' or 'perle' which means any bead, not just pearls. There is a reference in the Vindolanda tablets to jewellery but not beads in particular. Anyone who does know what the Latin for bead is, please let us know!