Auge
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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 [neuter, mixed]
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
- Äoge (also Lippisch)
- äuge (also Ravensbergisch; scienific)
Etymology
From Middle Low German ôge, from Old Saxon ōga.
Noun
Auge n (plural Augen)
- (Lippisch, Ravensbergisch) eye
See also
- (plural) Klockenpötte, Küickers
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