Etymograph

English

Hawk-Eye

From hawk + eye, a reference to the bird of prey's noted eyesight.

A compound of hawk + eye

Middle English hauk

English hawk

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- ‘eye’

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-West Germanic *augā

Old English ēage

Middle English e

English eye

The story

From hawk + eye, a reference to the bird of prey's noted eyesight.

Today it means

name A system, using six static television cameras and sophisticated computing, to track the path of the ball in flight.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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