Auge
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Äußerlich sichtbare Teile eines menschlichen Auges
Externally visible parts of a human eye.
German
Externally visible parts of a human eye.
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Alternative forms
- Aug (non-standard nowadays)
Etymology
From Middle High German ouge, from Old High German ouga, from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).
Modern cognates include Alemannic German Aug, Bavarian Aug, Dutch oog, English eye, Icelandic auga, Swedish öga.
Pronunciation
Noun
Auge n (mixed, genitive Auges, plural Augen, diminutive Äugelchen n or Äuglein n or Äugelein n)
- (anatomy) eye
- (on plants, esp. potatoes, grapevines and fruit trees) germ, bud; eye (potato)
- (on dice) dot, pip, spot
- (of a cyclonic storm) eye
- (on the surface of liquids, e.g. soup) drop or globule of grease or fat
- Synonym: Fettauge
Declension
Declension of Auge
Derived terms
- Augapfel (“eyeball; apple of one's eye”)
- Augen machen
- Augenbraue (“eyebrow”)
- Augenfleck
- Augenhöhle (“eye socket”)
- Augenlid (“eyelid”)
- Augenphilologie
- Augenschein (“appearance”)
- Augenspüleinrichtung (“eye wash station”)
- Augenwimper (“eyelash”)
- beäugen (“to eye”)
- blaues Auge
- Fettauge
- große Augen machen
- Hühnerauge (“corn; clavus”)
- im Auge behalten (“to keep an eye on”)
- im Auge haben
- ins Auge fassen (“to eye; to consider doing something”)
- ins Auge gehen (“to gouge someone's eye; to go wrong”)
- Mandelauge (“almond-shaped eye”)
- Neunauge (“lamprey”)
- Ölauge
- Schlitzauge (“almond-shaped eye; gook”)
- schöne Augen machen
- unter vier Augen (“in private”)
Further reading
- “Auge” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Auge” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Auge” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Auge” in Duden online
Auge on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Auge”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Low German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Low German ôge, from Old Saxon ōga.
Noun
Auge n (plural Augen)
- (Lippisch, Ravensbergisch) eye
See also
- (plural) Klockenpötte, Küickers