The story
- Latin · derived fromoculus“eye”
- Old French · derived fromoel“bunghole”
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromulliage
- Middle English · inherited fromulage
- English todayullage
From Middle English ulage, from Anglo-Norman ulliage, from *ullier (“to fill a partially empty cask”), from Old French oel (“bunghole”, literally “eye”), from Latin oculus (“eye”). See French ouillage.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchoel all →
owel
Latinoculus all →
oculusabducens oculioculiformoculistoculolinctus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.