Talk:eksteroog
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Morgengave in topic Etymology
Etymology[edit]
@Lambiam, Morgengave, Thadh, Mahagaja I do not rank myself among the connoisseurs regarding the eyes of magpies or any birdeyes, nor among the particularly callused, but "because of the similarity" seems a mighty deficient explanation to my uninitiated eye. In any event, the phenomenon is named after the eyes of other birds in various European languages, cf. Hühnerauge, without entries œil-de-perdrix and ojo de pollo. Do you know what the point of comparison is? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 15:56, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- I mean, it's round, but I can't come further than that. No idea why it's precisely a magpie whose eye a corn represents. Apparently the term isn't an original compound though, but rather borrowed: [1] Thadh (talk) 16:05, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- Dutch also had kraaienoog, Italian had two birdeye-variants, German three. It may be interesting to look for the oldest (first) birdeye-type word in the European Sprachbund. Likely all other languages derived from it, making calques and variants. Morgengave (talk) 16:32, 7 April 2021 (UTC)