«eye» en siete lenguas
Significadoeye
Español
/ˈoxo/
m.patrimonial
Francés
/œj/
m.patrimonial
plural: yeux
The plural yeux [jø] looks unrelated: it comes from OCULOS, worn down differently.
Italiano
/ˈɔkkjo/
m.patrimonial
Portugués
/ˈoʎu/
m.patrimonial
Rumano
/okʲ/
m.patrimonial
plural: ochi
Catalán
/uʎ/
m.patrimonial
Inglés
/aɪ/
pariente indoeuropeo · PIE *h₃ekʷ-
Native eye and borrowed ocular are distant cognates: both from PIE *h₃ekʷ-.
El antepasado latino
OCULUM‘eye’
Las seis hermanas descienden de él, salvo que se indique lo contrario abajo.
La historia
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.
Parientes en inglés: ocular, binoculars, inoculate
Leyes fonéticas en acción
Apréndela
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 familia latina
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