«eye» en set llengües
Significateye
Espanyol
/ˈoxo/
m.patrimonial
Francès
/œj/
m.patrimonial
plural: yeux
The plural yeux [jø] looks unrelated: it comes from OCULOS, worn down differently.
Italià
/ˈɔkkjo/
m.patrimonial
Portuguès
/ˈoʎu/
m.patrimonial
Romanès
/okʲ/
m.patrimonial
plural: ochi
Català
/uʎ/
m.patrimonial
Anglès
/aɪ/
parent indoeuropeu · PIE *h₃ekʷ-
Native eye and borrowed ocular are distant cognates: both from PIE *h₃ekʷ-.
L’avantpassat llatí
OCULUM‘eye’
Les sis germanes en descendeixen, tret que s’indiqui el contrari a continuació.
La història
Spoken Latin squeezed OCULUM to *oclu; each sister then softened the cl its own way: Spanish to a throaty j, French to a glide, Italian to cchi.
Parents en anglès: ocular, binoculars, inoculate
Lleis fonètiques en acció
Aprèn-la
En una frase
- esTiene los ojos azules.
- frElle a les yeux bleus.
- itHa gli occhi azzurri.
- ptEla tem olhos azuis.
- roAre ochi albaștri.
- caTé els ulls blaus.
- enShe has blue eyes.
La família llatina
OCUL-· eye
OCULUM, squeezed to *OCLU, is the classic showcase of the sisters' sound laws: ojo, œil, occhio. The learned branch is pure Latin (ocular, inoculate, from 'grafting a bud', an 'eye'), and French hides the root in aveugle 'blind', most likely from AB OCULĪS 'without eyes'. Portuguese olho, Romanian ochi and Catalan ull continue the pattern.
OCULUMeye
esojofrœilitocchioptolhoroochicaull
OCULĀREMof the eye
esocularfroculaireitoculareptocularroocularcaocularenocular
INOCULĀREto graft (insert a bud, 'an eye')
esinocularfrinoculeritinoculareptinocularroinoculacainoculareninoculate
MONOCULUM (Late Latin)one-eyed
esmonóculofrmonocleitmonocoloptmonóculoromonoclucamonocleenmonocle
AB OCULĪSwithout eyes
fraveugle