English

eyeglance

From eye + glance.

A compound of eye + glance

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- ‘eye’

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-West Germanic *augā

Old English ēage

Middle English e

English eye

Proto-Indo-European *weng- ‘to bow, to bend, to arch, to curve’

Middle English glenchen ‘of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance’

Today it means

noun A glance of the eye.

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

Etymograph / eyeglance