Where does “beryllium” come from?
beryllium (Dutch) comes from Latin beryllium, from Latin bēryllus, from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος, from Prakrit विरलायते, from Sanskrit वैडूर्य, from Pali veḷuriya, from Pali veḷur — white town.
beryllium (Dutch): beryllium
Ancestry of “beryllium”, step by step