Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/augā

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *augô.

Noun

*augā n^[1]

eye

Inflection

Neuter an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*augā
Genitive	augini, augan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*augā	*augōn
Accusative	*augā	*augōn
Genitive	augini, augan	*auganō
Dative	augini, augan	*augum
Instrumental	augini, augan	*augum

Derived terms

*augahlid

Descendants

Old English: ēage, ēge — Anglian
- Middle English: eye, e, eȝe, ei, eie, eighe, eyghe, eyȝe, iȝe, yȝe, ye, yë, yghe, eȝhe (Ormulum), ehe (AB language)
  - English: eye (see there for further descendants)
    Geordie: ee, eye
  - Middle Scots: ee, e, E (mainly early), ei, eie, eye (after Early Modern English), eae, eee, ie (rare)
    - Scots: ee, eh
  - Yola: iee
Old Frisian: āge, āg
- North Frisian:
  Most dialects: uug
  Goesharde: uug, uuch
  Halligen: uuch
  Heligoland: Oog
  Sylt: Oog
- Saterland Frisian: Oge, Ooge
- West Frisian: each
Old Saxon: ōga
- Middle Low German: ôge
  - Low German: Oge
    - German Low German: Oog
      Hamburgisch: Oog
      Westphalian:
      (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense? (is this Ravensbergisch or another Lippisch term? what's the source? Lippisch (Korl Biegemann, Wilhelm Oesterhaus, kinder-lippe.de) has "Auge", also "Äoge", see below. This was added in diff & diff.)) Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Äuge
      Lippisch: Auge, Äoge
      Ravensbergisch: äuge (scientific), Auge
      Sauerländisch: Äoge, Auge, Eyege, Ouge, Oue
      Westmünsterländisch: Ooge, Oog
  - Plautdietsch: Uag
Old Dutch: ōga, ouga
- Middle Dutch: ôge
  - Dutch: oog
  - Limburgish: oug
Old High German: ouga, ouca, auca
- Middle High German: ouge
  - Alemannic German: Aug
    Swabian: Aug
  - Bavarian: Aug
    Cimbrian: óoge
    Mòcheno: ag
  - Central Franconian: Ooch, Auch, Au
    Hunsrik: Au
    Kölsch: Ouch
    Luxembourgish: A
  - East Central German:
    Upper Saxon German: Ooche
    Vilamovian: aojg, aug, oüg
  - East Franconian:
  - German: Auge
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Palatine German: Aag
    Pennsylvania German: Aag
  - Yiddish: אויג (oyg)

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 153: “PWGmc *augā”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 153: “PWGmc *augā”

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