Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn egg.
Etymology tree Old English ǣġ Middle English ey English ey Inherited from Middle English ey, ei, from Old English ǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”). Doublet of egg, huevo, oeuf, and ovum. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian ai (“egg”), Saterland Frisian Oai (“egg”), West Frisian aai, aei (“egg”), Bavarian Oa (“egg”), Dutch ei (“egg”), German Ei (“egg”), German Low German Ai, Ägg (“egg”), Limburgish ei, Éï (“egg”), Luxembourgish Ee (“egg”), Mòcheno oi (“egg”), Vilamovian e (“egg”), Yiddish איי (ey, “egg”), Danish æg (“egg”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Crimean Gothic ada (“egg”); also Breton vi (“egg”), Cornish oy (“egg”), Welsh wy (“egg”), Latin ōvum (“egg”), Greek αβγό (avgó), αυγό (avgó, “egg”), Albanian vo (“egg”), Belarusian and Russian яйцо́ (jajcó, “egg”), Bulgarian яйце́ (jajcé, “egg”), Czech vejce (“egg”), Macedonian јајце (jajce, “egg”), Polish jajo (“egg”), Serbo-Croatian ја́јце, jájce (“egg”), Slovak vajce (“egg”), Slovene jájce (“egg”), Ukrainian яйце́ (jajcé, “egg”), Ossetian айк (ajk), айкӕ (ajkæ, “egg”), Armenian ձու (ju, “egg”), Northern Kurdish hêk (“egg”), Southern Kurdish خا (xa, “egg”), Zazaki hak (“egg”), Pashto هګۍ (hagë́y), ويه (wë́ya, “egg”), Persian خاگ (xâg), خایه (xâye, “egg”). This native English form was displaced by the Old Norse–derived egg in the 16th century.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionǣġang
- Inherited-form mention*aijgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*ajjągem-pro · egg
- Inherited-form mention*h₂ōwyómine-pro · egg
- Doublet mentioneggen
- Doublet mentionhuevoen
- Doublet mentionoeufen
- Doublet mentionovumen
- Cognate mentionaifrr · egg
- Cognate mentionOaistq · egg
- Cognate mentionaaify
- Cognate mentionOabar · egg
- Cognate mentioneinl · egg
- Cognate mentionEide · egg
- Cognate mentioneili
- Cognate mentionEelb · egg
- Cognate mentionoimhn · egg
- Cognate mentionewym · egg
- Cognate mentionאייyi · egg
- Cognate mentionægda · egg
- Cognate mentionäggsv · egg
- Cognate mentionadagme-cgo · egg
- Cognate mentionvibr · egg
- Cognate mentionoykw · egg
- Cognate mentionwycy · egg
- Cognate mentionōvumla · egg
- Cognate mentionαβγόel
- Cognate mentionvosq · egg
- Cognate mentionяйце́bg · egg
- Cognate mentionvejcecs · egg
- Cognate mentionјајцеmk · egg
- Cognate mentionjajopl · egg
- Cognate mentionја́јцеsh
- Cognate mentionvajcesk · egg
- Cognate mentionjájcesl · egg
- Cognate mentionяйце́uk · egg
- Cognate mentionайкos
- Cognate mentionձուhy · egg
- Cognate mentionhêkkmr · egg
- Cognate mentionخاsdh · egg
- Cognate mentionhakzza · egg
- Cognate mentionهګۍps
- Cognate mentionخاگfa
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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