Auge

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• Aug (non-standard nowadays)

From Middle High German ouge, from Old High German ouga, from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).

Modern cognates include Alemannic German Aug, Bavarian Aug, Dutch oog, English eye, Icelandic auga, Swedish öga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯ɡə/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯ɡə
• Hyphenation: Au‧ge

Auge n (mixed, genitive Auges, plural Augen, diminutive Äugelchen n or Äuglein n or Äugelein n)

1. (anatomy) eye
2. (on plants, esp. potatoes, grapevines and fruit trees) germ, bud; eye (potato)
3. (on dice) dot, pip, spot
4. (of a cyclonic storm) eye
5. (on the surface of liquids, e.g. soup) drop or globule of grease or fat

   Synonym: Fettauge

• “Auge” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Auge” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Auge” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Auge” in Duden online
• Auge on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Auge”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

• Äoge (also Lippisch)
• äuge (also Ravensbergisch; scienific)

From Middle Low German ôge, from Old Saxon ōga.

Auge n (plural Augen)

1. (Lippisch, Ravensbergisch) eye

• (plural) Klockenpötte, Küickers