Etymology

augen

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Today it means: Flattened eye-shaped mineral grains present in some metamorphic rocks. Full definition →

German Augen
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromAugen“eyes”
  2. English todayaugen

From German Augen (“eyes”).

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