Etymology

eyen

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Middle English eyen ← Old English ēagan ← Proto-West Germanic *augōn
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*augōnō
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*augōn
  3. Old English · inherited fromēagan
  4. Middle English · inherited fromeyen
  5. English todayeyen

From Middle English eyen, iȝen (plural of eie, besides rarer eyes), from Old English ēagan (nominative plural of ēage), from Proto-West Germanic *augōn (nominative plural of *augā), from Proto-Germanic *augōnō (nominative plural of *augô); equivalent to eye + -en (plural ending)

Words from the same roots

Middle Englisheyen all →

eye

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.