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 an n-suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”), with analogical introduction of the diphthong -au- from *auzô (“ear”),[1] or alternatively metathesized from earlier *agwô (→ *awgô). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) The voicing due to Verner's law points to an originally accented suffix, which may have been introduced from the oblique forms of a pre-Proto-Germanic paradigm *ahwô ~ *agwnes (→ *augnes, whence back-formed *augô), which must have been formed at a late stage as it evaded Kluge's law; or it may be analogical with agent nouns in *-ô (like *slagô, *tugô; “eye” would have been “that which sees”), the paradigm of which in any case *augô may have been partly leveled to.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯.ɣɔːː/

Noun

*augô n[1]

  1. eye

Inflection

Declension 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

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*augōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 41
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