Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/augô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”), with analogical introduction of the diphthong -au- from *auzô (“ear”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.ɣɔːː/

Noun

*augô n[1]

eye

Inflection

neuter an-stemDeclension of *augô (neuter an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*augô	*augōnō
vocative	*augô	*augōnō
accusative	*augô	*augōnō
genitive	*auginiz	*auganǫ̂
dative	*augini	*augammaz
instrumental	*auginē	*augammiz

Derived terms

*augijaną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *augā
- Old English: ēage, ēge
  - Middle English: eie, yȝe, ye, yë, yghe, eye, eȝhe, eȝe, eighe, eyghe, eyȝe, iȝe
    - English: eye
      - Sranan Tongo: ai
    - Scots: ee
    - Yola: ieen, eein, eyen, eeen, een, ein (plural)
- Old Frisian: āge, āg
  - North Frisian:
    Most dialects: uug
    Goesharde: uug, uuch
    Halligen: uuch
    Heligoland: Oog
    Sylt: Oog
  - Saterland Frisian: Oge
  - West Frisian: each
- Old Saxon: ōga
  - Middle Low German: ôge
    - Low German:
      - German Low German:
        Hamburgisch: Oog
        Westphalian:
        {{rfc-sense|nds|is this Ravensbergisch or another Lippisch term? what's the source?
- Old Dutch: ōga
  - Middle Dutch: ôge
    - Dutch: oog
    - Limburgish: oug
- Old High German: ouga
  - Middle High German: ouge
    - Alemannic German: Aug
      Swabian: Aug
    - Bavarian: Aug
      Cimbrian:
      Mòcheno:
    - Central Franconian: Ooch, Auch, Au
      Hunsrik: Au
      Kölsch: Ouch
      Luxembourgish: A
    - East Central German:
      Upper Saxon: Ooche
      Vilamovian: aojg
    - East Franconian:
    - German: Auge
    - Rhine Franconian:
      Palatine German: Aag
      Pennsylvania German: Aag
    - Yiddish: אויג‎ (oyg)
Old Norse: auga
- Icelandic: auga
- Faroese: eyga
- Norwegian Nynorsk: auga n
- Norwegian: (dialectal) auga, aua, aue f or n, auwe, ouwe, ouga
- Jamtish: ouge
- Elfdalian: oga
- Westrobothnian: ôu, auge, æue, æuwę, øg, ög, yg, y
- Old Swedish: ø̄gha
  - Swedish: öga
    - → Finnish: ööga
- Scanian: yva
- Old Danish: ø̄ghæ
  - Danish: øje
    - Norwegian Bokmål: øye
- Gutnish: auge
Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 (augō)
Crimean Gothic: oeghene (plural)
→? Proto-Finnic: *aukko
- Finnish: aukko
- Estonian: auk
- Votic: aukko

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*augōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 41

[EDPG-1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*augōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 41