œil
French
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) eye, organ that is sensitive to light, helping organisms to see
- plural œils glyph, rendering of a single character
- plural œils eye (of a needle)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French œil inherited from Old French oil (eye) inherited from Latin oclus, oculus (eye) inherited from Proto-Italic *okʷelos derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃okʷ-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antler English
- oculiform English
- oculo- English
- oculus English
- oillet English
- *adoclāre Latin
- *oliolus Latin
- -ellus Latin
- inoculo Latin
- ocellus Latin
- oclum Latin
- oclus Latin
- ocularis Latin
- ocularius Latin
- oculatus Latin
- oculeus Latin
- oculo Latin
- oculus Latin
- occhiale Italian
- occhiali Italian
- oculista Italian
- oculo Italian
- oculiste French
- œillet French
- œilleton French
- antojo Spanish, Castilian
- ojear Spanish, Castilian
- ojera Spanish, Castilian
- ojete Spanish, Castilian
- ojiazul Spanish, Castilian
- ojiplático Spanish, Castilian
- ojo Spanish, Castilian
- ojudo Spanish, Castilian
- ojón Spanish, Castilian
- óculo Spanish, Castilian
- *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃okʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃ókʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- olheiro Portuguese
- olhinho Portuguese
- olho Portuguese
- olhão Portuguese
- olhômetro Portuguese
- óculo Portuguese
- óculos Portuguese
- *augô Proto-Germanic
- eyen Middle English
- il Old French
- o Old French
- oel Old French
- oil Old French
- ueil Old French
- uel Old French
- okulo Esperanto
- de reüll Catalan, Valencian
- ull Catalan, Valencian
- ullada Catalan, Valencian
- ullblau Catalan, Valencian
- ullera Catalan, Valencian
- ullprendre Catalan, Valencian
- òcul Catalan, Valencian
- antollo Galician
- ollada Galician
- ollo Galician
- oacheș Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ochi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- acs Latvian
- okulo Ido
- œil Middle French
- ollo Old Portuguese
- oclju Aromanian
- *okelos Proto-Italic
- *okʷelos Proto-Italic
- egl Romansh
- îgl Romansh
- îl Romansh
- ögl Romansh
- güeyu Asturian
- voli Friulian
- olh Old Occitan
- occhiu Sicilian
- ocio Venetian
- wowo Papiamentu
- *ak- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- ὀκκιάλι gkm
- uaclo Dalmatian
- ojo Ladino
- odju Kabuverdianu
- ouy Walloon
- euille Bourguignon
- ogu Sardinian
- uocchio Neapolitan
- uocio Istriot
- güello Aragonese
- oculo Interlingua
- udju Guinea-Bissau Creole
- uolho Mirandese
- ايلجو Mozarabic
- واليه Mozarabic
- ollu Fala