glasses, spectacles (frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes to correct vision) · goggles (protective eyewear set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face) · Ellipsis of Klobrille (“toilet seat”) (hinged, contoured seat with a hole in the middle, of a toilet)
köken: From Middle High German brille, berille, from berillus (“beryl”), from Latin beryllus (“beryl”). Compare dialectal English brills (“spectacles”). The "toilet seat" sense is derived in analogy with the usually round shape of spectacle frames surrounding the glass, just as a toilet seat surrounds the toilet hole.
a pair of glasses or goggles · a telescope · anything of similar shape
çekim: çoğul brillen
eş: closetbril, toiletbril, wc-bril
köken: From Middle Dutch beril (“beryl”), from Latin beryllus (“beryl”), from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos), from Prakrit [Term?] (compare Sanskrit वैडूर्य (vaiḍūrya, “a cat's eye gem; a jewel”)), from Dravidian. Probably named after the city Velur (modern day Belur) in southern India. The first glasses, manufactured in Italy around 1300, were made of beryl. The meaning “toilet seat” is newer and…
köken: Probably originally a compound of 目 (me, “eye”) + 金 (kane, “metal”, in reference to the metal used in eyeglass frames). The kane changes to gane as an instance of rendaku (連濁). The spelling is based on an apparent borrowing from Chinese, see the gankyō reading below. Appears in texts from the late 1500s.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin oculus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Latin oculārislbor. Polish okulary Learned borrowing from Latin oculāris.
köken: From szem (“eye”) + üveg (“glass”), calque of German Augenglas, created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. Displaced okuláré and pápaszem.