English

eyeache

From eye + ache.

A compound of eye + ache

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- ‘eye’

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-West Germanic *augā

Old English ēage

Middle English e

English eye

Middle English aken ‘to ache, to hurt’

English ache

Today it means

noun A pain or ache in the eye.

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