Auge
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Alternative forms edit
- Aug (non-standard nowadays)
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of Auge [neuter, mixed]
Derived terms edit
- 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 edit
- “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 edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German ôge, from Old Saxon ōga.
Noun edit
Auge n (plural Augen)
- (Lippisch, Ravensbergisch) eye
See also edit
- (plural) Klockenpötte, Küickers