Auge

See also: auge and augé

German

Äußerlich sichtbare Teile eines menschlichen Auges
Externally visible parts of a human eye.

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Körper

Alternative forms

Aug (non-standard nowadays)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯ɡə/
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Noun

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

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

Declension

Declension of Auge [neuter, mixed]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Auge	die	Augen
genitive	eines	des	Auges	der	Augen
dative	einem	dem	Auge	den	Augen
accusative	ein	das	Auge	die	Augen

Derived terms

Augapfel (“eyeball; apple of one's eye”)
Augen machen
Augenbraue (“eyebrow”)
Augenfleck
Augenhöhle (“eye socket”)
Augenlid (“eyelid”)
Augenphilologie
Augenschein (“appearance”)
Augenspüleinrichtung (“eye wash station”)
Augenwimper (“eyelash”)
beäugen (“to eye”)
blaues Auge
Fettauge
große Augen machen
Hühnerauge (“corn; clavus”)
im Auge behalten (“to keep an eye on”)
im Auge haben
ins Auge fassen (“to eye; to consider doing something”)
ins Auge gehen (“to gouge someone's eye; to go wrong”)
Mandelauge (“almond-shaped eye”)
Neunauge (“lamprey”)
Ölauge
Schlitzauge (“almond-shaped eye; gook”)
schöne Augen machen
unter vier Augen (“in private”)

Further reading

“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

Low German

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Middle Low German ôge, from Old Saxon ōga.

Noun

Auge n (plural Augen)

(Lippisch, Ravensbergisch) eye

See also

(plural) Klockenpötte, Küickers

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