okʷ-

To see. Oldest form *ə₃ekʷ-, colored to *ə₃okʷ-, zero-grade *ə₃kʷ-.

Derivatives include eye, daisy, window, inoculate, and autopsy.

1.

a. eye; daisy, from Old English ēage, eye;

b. walleyed, window, from Old Norse auga, eye;

c. ogle, from Low German oog, oge, eye. a-c all from Germanic *augōn- (with taboo deformation).

2. Suffixed form *okʷ-olo-.

a. eyelet, ocellus, ocular, oculist, oculus, ullage; antler, inoculate, monocle, oculomotor, pinochle, from Latin oculus, eye;

b. inveigle, from French aveugle, blind, from Gallo-Latin compound *ab-oculus, blind, calqued on Gaulish exs-ops, blind.

3. Form *okʷ-s. ceratopsian, metopic, myopia, nyctalopia, Pelops, phlogopite, prosopography, prosopopoeia, pyrope, triceratops, from Greek ōps, eye (and stem *op-, to see).

4. Suffixed form *okʷ-ti-. opsin, -opsis, -opsy; autopsy, dropsy, iodopsin, rhodopsin, synopsis, from Greek opsis, sight, appearance.

5. Suffixed form *okʷ-to-. optic; diopter, optoelectronics, optometry, panoptic, from Greek optos, seen, visible.

6. Suffixed form *okʷ-ā-. metope, from Greek opē, opening.

7. Suffixed form *okʷ-mn̥. ommatidium, ommatophore, from Greek omma (< *opma), eye.

8. Suffixed form *okʷ-tro-. catoptric, from Greek katoptron, “back-looker,” mirror (kata-, down, back; see kat-).

9. ophthalmo-; exophthalmos, from Greek ophthalmos, eye (with taboo deformation).

10. Zero-grade form *əkʷ-, in compounds (see ant-, āter-, ghwer-).

 

[Pokorny okᵘ̯- 775.]

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