éuggio

Ligurian

FWOTD – 28 September 2013

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin oclum, accusative of oclus, from Latin oculus (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ødd͡ʒu/

Noun

éuggio m (plural éuggi)

1. eye (organ by which means animals see)
   • July–September 2010, Ezio Baglini, I Griffi: a seu stöia, Brigati Glauco, page 11:

     […] ; a seu vòtta tùtti goeriêri no da pöco, gigantéschi e co-in éuggio sôlo e antropòfaghi cómme i Ciclöpi.

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