Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone. · A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery. · Anything precious or valuable. · A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
From Middle English juel, jewel, juwel, jeuel, jowel, from Anglo-Norman juel, from Old French jouel, joel, joïel, hence French joyau, of uncertain origin. Perhaps based ultimately on Latin gaudium (“joy”), or on Latin iocus (“joke; jest”), or according to Pihan, from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar). Compare Medieval Latin jocale. Displaced native Old English māþm.
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