pet topic,
but before the venerable bead-pray, are there any references as to how a bead was refered to/called? it seems to me that the term bead is not very old (like palaeolithic) and there does not seem to be older words for thing with a hole through it that could be threaded through a string (possibly then worn/carried about/used for counting? for some affect/effect) before venerable bede- have i missed something obvious
but before the venerable bead-pray, are there any references as to how a bead was refered to/called? it seems to me that the term bead is not very old (like palaeolithic) and there does not seem to be older words for thing with a hole through it that could be threaded through a string (possibly then worn/carried about/used for counting? for some affect/effect) before venerable bede- have i missed something obvious