Auge

See also: auge and augé

German

Äußerlich sichtbare Teile eines menschlichen Auges
Externally visible parts of a human eye.

Picture dictionary

Auge

Stirn

Augenbraue

Wimper

Auge

Nase

Nasenloch

Wange

Kiefer

Mund

Lippe

Kinn

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Körper

Körper

Alternative forms

• Aug (non-standard nowadays)

Etymology

From Middle High German ouge, from Old High German ouga, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯ɡə/

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Noun

Auge n (mixed, genitive Auges, plural Augen, diminutive Äugelchen n or Äuglein n)

1. (anatomy) eye
2. (on plants, esp. potatoes, grapevines and fruit trees) germ, bud; eye (potato)
3. (on dice) dot, pip, spot
4. (of a cyclonic storm) eye
5. (on the surface of liquids, e.g. soup) drop or globule of grease or fat

   Synonym: Fettauge

Declension

Declension of Auge [neuter, mixed]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Auge	die	Augen
genitive	eines	des	Auges	der	Augen
dative	einem	dem	Auge	den	Augen
accusative	ein	das	Auge	die	Augen

Derived terms

• Augapfel (“eyeball; apple of one's eye”)
• Augen machen
• Augenbraue (“eyebrow”)
• Augenfleck
• Augenhöhle (“eye socket”)
• Augenlid (“eyelid”)
• 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