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

Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
Hypothetical AY for the left eye would also have
survived in Old English (Bosworth Anglo Saxon
Dictionary 1882):

Piers the Plowman eighe plural eighen

John Wycliff ei3e plural ei3en

and in Indo-European according to Pokorny:

au- auei- 'to perceive, to take up with the senses'

for example Greek aisthanomai 'to perceive'

OC for right eye was preferred to AY for left eye,
as the right extremities of a sacrificial animal were
preferred to the left ones (see above), yet also the
AY form survived, and I repeat my opinion that
Old English eage English eye are derivatives of
the compound AY OC and hence originally a plural.

As obvious as it is to you that it was of key importance to the alleged Magdalenians to have separate words for the right and left eye, and as pervasive as you believe these words to have been as etymological ingredients in descendant languages, does it not occur to you that it's slightly strange to you not to find one single example of a culture speaking a descendant language that maintained this vital distinction between the terms for the two eyes?
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