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From Middle English, from Old English ēaġe, from Common Germanic *augon, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“‘eye; to see’”). Related to ogle, German Aug, Dutch oog, Latin oculus, Proto-Slavic *oko
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Singular
eye
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Plural
eyes or (archaic) eyen
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eye (plural eyes or (archaic) eyen)
- An organ that is sensitive to light, which it converts to electrical signals passed to the brain, by which means animals see.
- The visual sense.
- The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
- Attention, notice.
- That dress caught her eye.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- He has an eye for talent.
- A meaningful stare or look.
- She was giving him the eye at the bar.
- When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
- A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
- 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 199,
- Far more annoying were the letters from parents of missing daughters and the private detectives who had begun showing up at his door. Independently of each other, the Cigrand and Conner families had hired “eyes” [word used 1892 June 26, “At the Nearby Normal School”, in the Chicago Tribune] to search for their missing daughters.
- A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
- A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
- The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm.
- A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
- The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
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Terms derived from the noun eye
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organ
- Afrikaans: oog
- Ainu: シク (sik)
- Akkadian: 𒅆 (īnu) f.
- Albanian: sy sq(sq)
- Amharic: ዐይን am(am) (ayn)
- Arabic: عين ar(ar) (ʕain)
- Aragonese: güello m.
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܥܝܢܐ (ʕaynā’) f.
- Hebrew: עינא (ʕaynā’) f.
- Archi: лур (lur)
- Armenian: աչք hy(hy) (ačk’)
- Old Armenian: ակն (akn), աչք (ačʿkʿ) pl.
- Azeri: göz az(az)
- Bashkir: күҙ ba(ba) (küź)
- Basque: begi
- Belarusian: вока be(be) n.
- Bosnian: oko bs(bs) n.
- Breton: lagad m., daoulagad pl.
- Bulgarian: око bg(bg) (oko) n.
- Burmese: မျက်စိ my(my) (myetsi.)
- Campidanese Sardinian: ogu m.
- Catalan: ull m. ^ [1]
- Chamicuro: ojki
- Chechen: бӀаьрг (bjärɡ)
- Cherokee: ᎠᎦᏙᎵ chr(chr) (agadoli)
- Chinese: 眼睛 (yǎnjīng)
- Chuvash: куҫ (kuś)
- Coptic: ⲉⲓⲁ (eia), ⲃⲁⲗ (bal)
- Croatian: oko hr(hr) n.
- Czech: oko cs(cs) n.
- Danish: øje da(da) n.
- Dolgan: карак (karak)
- Dutch: oog nl(nl) n., kijker nl(nl)
- Eblaite: 𒀀𒈾𒈾 (anana)
- Erzya: сельме (selme)
- Esperanto: okulo eo(eo)
- Estonian: silm et(et)
- Evenki: эса (esa)
- Faroese: eyga fo(fo) n.
- Finnish: silmä fi(fi)
- French: œil fr(fr) m.
- Gagauz: göz
- Galician: ollo m.
- Gamilaraay: mil
- Georgian: თვალი ka(ka) (t'vali)
- German: Auge de(de) n.
- Gilbertese: mata
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmos) m.
- Modern: μάτι (máti) n. (colloquial), οφθαλμός (ofthalmós) m. (medical), όμμα (óma) n. (poetic), ομμάτιον (omátion) n. (folk and poetic)
- Greenlandic: isi kl(kl)
- Guaraní: resa, tesa
- Guugu Yimidhirr: miil, walgul
- Hawaiian: maka
- Hebrew: עין he(he) (ʕayin)
- Hindi: आँख (ā.nkh), नयन (nayan)
- Hungarian: szem hu(hu)
- Icelandic: auga is(is) n.
- Ido: okulo
- Igbo: anya
- Ilocano: mata
- Indonesian: mata id(id)
- Interlingua: oculo ia(ia)
- Inuktitut: ᐃᔨ
- Inupiak: iri
- Irish: súil ga(ga) f.
- Italian: occhio it(it) m.
- Japanese: 目 ja(ja) (め, me)
- Kalenjin: konyak
- Kalmyk: нүдн (nüdn)
- Kannada: ಕಣ್ಣು (kaṇṇu)
- Karachay-Balkar: кёз (köz)
- Karakalpak: ko'z
- Kazakh: көз kk(kk) (köz)
- Khakas: харах (xarax)
- Kikuyu: maitho
- Korean: 눈 (nun)
- Koryak: лылалӈын (ləlalŋən)
- Kumyk: гёз (göz)
- Kurdish: چاو ku(ku)
- Kyrgyz: көз ky(ky) (köz)
- Lao: ຕາ (taa)
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- Latin: oculus la(la) m.
- Lithuanian: akis lt(lt) f.
- Lower Sorbian: woko n.
- Luhya: chimoni, emoni
- Macedonian: око mk(mk) (óko) n.
- Malay: mata ms(ms)
- Malayalam: കണ്ണ് (kaNNu), നേത്രം (nethram)
- Maltese: għajn mt(mt) f.
- Mandinka: ñaa
- Manx: sooill gv(gv) f.
- Maori: mata mi(mi)
- Marathi: डोळा (dolā), नयन (nayan)
- Martuthunira: paniya, thurla
- Mongolian: нүд (nüd)
- Nogai: коьз (köz)
- Northern Sami: čalbmi
- Norwegian: øye no(no) n.
- Norwegian Nynorsk: auge nn(nn)
- Occitan: uèlh oc(oc) m.
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: око (oko) n.
- Glagolitic: ⰑⰍⰑ (oko) n.
- Old English: ēaġe ang(ang) n.
- Old Irish: súil f.
- Old Norse: øgha (Eastern dialect), auga (Western dialect)
- Persian: چشم (čašm)
- Phoenician: 𐤀𐤍 (ʕn), 𐤍𐤉𐤀 (ʕyn)
- Polish: oko pl(pl) n.
- Portuguese: olho pt(pt) m.
- Powhatan: meskinsek; neskinsek (my eye); keskinsek (your e.)
- Quechua: ñawi
- Rohingya: suk
- Romani: jakh f.
- Romanian: ochi ro(ro) m.
- Russia Buryat: нюдэн
- Russian: глаз ru(ru) (glaz) n.
- Samogitian: akis f.
- Sanskrit: अक्षि sa(sa) (ákṣi) n., नेत्र sa(sa) (netra) n., नयनम sa(sa) (nayana) n.
- Santali: ᱢᱮᱫ (met')
- Scottish Gaelic: sùil gd(gd) f.
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: око sr(sr) n.
- Roman: oko sr(sr) n.
- Shan: တႃ (tǎa)
- Shor: кӧс (kös), қарақ (qaraq)
- Sicilian: occhiu scn(scn) m.
- Slovak: oko sk(sk) n.
- Slovene: oko sl(sl) n.
- Sotho: leihlo st(st)
- Southern Altai: кӧс (kös)
- Spanish: ojo es(es) m.
- Sumerian: 𒅆 (IGI)
- Sundanese: panon su(su)
- Swahili: jicho sw(sw), jicho sw(sw)
- Swedish: öga sv(sv) n.
- Tagalog: mata
- Tajik: чашм tg(tg) (čašm)
- Taos: cínemą
- Tatar: küz tt(tt)
- Telugu: కన్ను te(te) (kannu), నేత్రం te(te) (netram)
- Thai: ตา th(th) (taa)
- Tibetan: མིག (mig), སྤྱན (spyan)
- Tofa: карак (qaraq)
- Tok Pisin: ai tpi(tpi)
- Tongan: mata
- Tupinambá: esá (t-)
- Turkish: göz tr(tr)
- Turkmen: göz tk(tk)
- Tutelo: tasui
- Tuvan: карак (qaraq)
- Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎐 (ʿn)
- Ukrainian: око uk(uk) (óko) n.
- Upper Sorbian: woko n.
- Urdu: آنکھ (ā.nkh), نین (nayan)
- Uyghur: كۆز ug(ug) (köz)
- Uzbek: koʻz uz(uz)
- Venetian: ocio m.
- Warlpiri: milpa
- Welsh: llygad cy(cy)
- West Frisian: each
- !Xóõ: ʘoa
- Yakut: харах (xarax)
- Yiddish: אױג yi(yi) (oyg) n.
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mark on an animal resembling an eye
ability to notice what others might miss
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- Bulgarian: ухо (úkho) n. (2), усет (uset) m. (6)
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Infinitive
to eye
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Third person singular
eyes
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Simple past
eyed
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Past participle
eyed
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Present participle
eyeing or eying
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to eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or eying, simple past and past participle eyed)
- To observe carefully.
- After eying the document for an hour she decided not to sign it.
- They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
- To view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document.
- To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing.
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Terms derived from the verb to eye
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to look as if intending to do sthg
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