Talk:ear

auricle

ear is here being described as a the entire hearing organ, which it of course is, but am I totally wrong in thinking that it is used specifically for the outer ear (pinna, auricle)? --sanna 08:36, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

No, it means auricle specifically. —Stephen 15:35, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

So should there be another definition listing this specific usage? Or am I misunderstanding Stephen?--sanna 18:49, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, there definitely should be more definitions. There are: (1) the composite organ; (2) the external ear; (3) the sense of hearing (pleasing to the ear); (4) attention (to gain someone’s ear); (5) architectural senses; (6) sensitive perception to quality of sound (a good ear for music); (7) mechanical senses; and probably a number of others.. —Stephen 21:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

The hole of a needle

The eye of a needle

Danish : øje, nåleøje
Dutch  : oog (nl), naaldoog
English: eye (en) 
Faroese: eyga
Norweg.:
*Bokmål: øye (no)
*Nynor.: auge (nn)
Swedish: öga (sv), nålsöga (sv)

Spanish: ojo (es)

The ear of a needle, as it were

German : Öhr (de), Nadelöhr (de)

Czech  : ucho (cs)
Polish : ucho (pl)
Russian: ушко́ (ru) (uškó)
Serbo-Croatian: uholaža
Slovak : ucholak

Korean : 귀 (ko) (gwi), 
         바늘귀 (baneul-gwi)

You may be interested in the above comparison. Roughly, Germanic but for German means the hole of a needle by the (deprecated template usage) eye, while Slavonic by the (deprecated template usage) ear. For example, then, German (deprecated template usage) Ohrwurm lit. (deprecated template usage) earworm might better mean such a worm with something like the ear (eye) of a needle than one that is superstitiously feared to burrow into the ear. See also Wiktionary:Etymology scriptorium #earworm.

--KYPark (talk) 15:27, 5 March 2013 (UTC)