wyndowe
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- wendow, windowe, wondowe, wyndewe, wyndoe, wyndou, wyndouwe, wyndow
- windoun, windown, wyndounne, wyndown, wyndowne (East Anglia)[1]
- windoge, windohe (Early Middle English)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Norse vindauga, from vind (“wind”) + auga (“eye”); compare wynd (“wind”).[2]
East Anglian forms with /n/ may originate from a weak plural *wyndowen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wyndowe (plural wyndowes)
- A window (opening for light in a wall)
- A window fitting or windowframe.
- (by extension) Any opening or viewing hole.
- (specifically) Any of the five senses.
Descendants
[edit]- English: window (dialectal windon, obsolete windore)
- Scots: winda, windae, wunda, wundae; winnock, wunnock
References
[edit]- ^ McIntosh, Angus, Laing, Margaret (1996) “Middle English "windown", 'window': A Word-Geographical Note”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, volume 97, number 3, Modern Language Society, pages 295-300.
- ^ “windou(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.