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Middle English
- wendow, windowe, wondowe, wyndewe, wyndoe, wyndou, wyndouwe, wyndow
- windoun, windown, wyndounne, wyndown, wyndowne (East Anglia)[1]
- windoge, windohe (Early Middle English)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse vindauga, from vind (“wind”) + auga (“eye”); compare wynd (“wind”).[2]
East Anglian forms with /n/ may originate from a weak plural *wyndowen.
Pronunciation
Noun
wyndowe (plural wyndowes)
- A window (opening for light in a wall)
- A window fitting or windowframe.
- (by extension) Any opening or viewing hole.
- (specifically) Any of the five senses.
Descendants
References
- ^ McIntosh, Angus, Laing, Margaret (1996) “Middle English "windown", 'window': A Word-Geographical Note”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, volume 97, number 3, Modern Language Society, pages 295-300.
- ^ “windou(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.