Post #1394751
2026-04-06 08:10 UTC
@yvanspijk anything to do with eye?
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@yvanspijk@toot.community 2026-04-06 08:32
@hanscees No: 'eye' comes from Proto-Germanic *augô instead. While the spellings of 'ey' and 'eye' are similar, their pronunciation always differed. 'Ey' would noe have rhymed with 'way'.