On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Ben L. Harrison wrote:

What is the Japanese word for Diamond?

'Daiyamondo,' although it's sometimes shortened to just 'daiya.'

Also if this person had a sister and there parents wanted to keep a
jewel/gem them what would be a good name?

You might check out the character listings for Sailor Moon for this sort
of thing - lots of the villains are named after gemstones and similar.
Sapphire ('safaia') might be good, or Ruby ('rubii').  Maybe even Opal
('opaaru').  For a lot of gemstones, you just have to say the English word
with a Japanese pronunciation to get the Japanese name.

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