¹⁹Daniel, Glyn. Megaliths in History. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. 7.
According to Daniel, in 1849 an Oxford don, Algernon Merbert, coined the word "megalith" from the Greek megas, great, and lithos, stone. (Daniel, Glyn. "Megalithic Monuments." Scientific American July 1980: 77.)