"eye" in sette lingue
Significatoeye
Spagnolo
/ˈoxo/
m.ereditaria
Francese
/œj/
m.ereditaria
plurale: yeux
The plural yeux [jø] looks unrelated: it comes from OCULOS, worn down differently.
Italiano
/ˈɔkkjo/
m.ereditaria
Portoghese
/ˈoʎu/
m.ereditaria
Rumeno
/okʲ/
m.ereditaria
plurale: ochi
Catalano
/uʎ/
m.ereditaria
Inglese
/aɪ/
parente indoeuropea · PIE *h₃ekʷ-
Native eye and borrowed ocular are distant cognates: both from PIE *h₃ekʷ-.
L’antenato latino
OCULUM‘eye’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
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.
Parenti inglesi: ocular, binoculars, inoculate
Leggi fonetiche all’opera
Imparala
In 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 famiglia 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