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Amethyst

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a purple variety of quartz used as a gemstone
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Stage 1 of 2
amethystos
Greek · ancient
"not intoxicated"
literally not drunken, from the belief the purple stone warded off intoxication
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Stage 2 of 2
amethyst
English · 1300s
"a purple variety of quartz"
settled as the English word for the purple quartz gemstone
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