jewel
As jewels (of altfr. Joel ) all types of precious jewelery , particulary those that one or more in noble metal combined gems included.
Occasionally, high-quality, cut gemstones without setting are also referred to as jewels.
See also: jeweler , crown jewels
Web links
Commons : Jewels - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Juwel - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer among other things: Etymological dictionary of German. dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03358-4 , page 605
- ^ A b Walter Schumann: Precious stones and gemstones. All kinds and varieties. 1900 unique pieces . 16th revised edition. BLV Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8354-1171-5 , pp. 11 .
- ↑ Ulrich Henn: Gemstone Dictionary . Ed .: German Gemmological Society. Self-published, Idar-Oberstein 2001, ISBN 3-932515-24-2 , p. 48 .