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

Descendants

Old English: ēaġe, ēge — Anglian
- Middle English: eie, yȝe, ye, yë, yghe, eye, eȝhe, eȝe, eighe, eyghe, eyȝe, iȝe
  - English: eye
    - Sranan Tongo: ai
  - Geordie English: ee, eye
  - 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:
      ^{The template Template:rfc-sense does not use the parameter(s): 2=is this Ravensbergisch or another Lippisch term? what's the source? Lippisch (Korl Biegemann, Wilhelm Oesterhaus, ) has "Auge", also "Äoge", see below. This was added in <span class="plainlinks"></span> & <span class="plainlinks"></span>.
      Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}(Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Äuge
      Lippisch: Auge, Äoge
      Ravensbergisch: äuge (scientific), Auge
      Sauerländisch: Äoge, Auge, Eyege, Ouge, Oue
      Westmünsterländisch: Ooge, Oog
  - Plautdietsch: Uag
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 German: Ooche
    Vilamovian: aojg
  - 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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