Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

On Oct 2, 3:16 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 1, 4:48 pm, Harlan Messinger





<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
FranzGnaedingerwrote:
On Oct 1, 4:01 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You mean "oeil". And irrelevant, because "oeil" comes from "oculus", so
even if "oc" and "ay" were real, "oeil" would go with "oc" and not "ay",
which just shows that even within your mythological system you've got
your etymology wrong.

Oh, and English "eye" goes back to Old English "éage", and corresponds
to German "Auge", etc. So once again this dichotomy of yours, which
would call for "eye" and "Auge" to descend from two separate words, is
illustory.

OC for the right eye and AY for the left eye allow two
compounds: OC AY and AY OC, surviving in Scottish
och aye and in éage Auge. Use my method of silently
pronouncing (articulating, performing) a word or
compound: ayoc ayoc ayoc ... auog aug Auge ...

No, I will not engage in your pointless, entirely subjective exercise.
Recall my likening of it to using a ouija board.

(What's an ouija board?) I can also give you a more
difficult answer: the place of AY in the verbal morphospace
was abandoned when the OC form gained more and more
importance but caused sort of a vacuum that was by and by
filled up with forms that are close to AY, such as eye.
Coming from hypothetical AY OC the Faeroese eyga
Old English eage Old High German ouge German Auge
would actually be a plural and is treated as a plural in
many expressions and proverbs:

all my eye
to have one's eye on
with an eye to
catch somebody's eye
it got my eye
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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Just out of curiosity, I've been wondering: Does anyone know of any
_real_ language in which "left eye" and "right eye" have completely
separate lexical items?

Ross Clark

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    ... to German "Auge", etc. So once again this dichotomy of yours, which ... compounds: OC AY and AY OC, ... och aye and in éage Auge. ... compound: ayoc ayoc ayoc ... ...
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  • Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?
    ... OC for the right eye and AY for the left eye allow two ... compounds: OC AY and AY OC, ... och aye and in éage Auge. ... compound: ayoc ayoc ayoc ... ...
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