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A 'wind-eye': Norse vindauga named the hole in a roof or wall that let in air and light. English took it from the Danes and displaced its own 'eye-hole', ēagþyrel; from English it passed on into Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx, and in the 20th century into Japanese.

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The road to English

From Old Norse to Icelandic

From Old Norse to Faroese

From Old Norse to Swedish

From Old Norse to Danish, Norwegian

From Middle English to Scots

From Middle English to Middle Irish, Irish

From Middle Irish to Scottish Gaelic

From Middle Irish to Manx

From English to Japanese

1200Old Norse

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

The road to English

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