English

eyelift

From eye + lift, after facelift.

A compound of eye + lift

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- ‘eye’

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-West Germanic *augā

Old English ēage

Middle English e

English eye

Proto-Germanic *luftuz ‘roof, sky, air’

Proto-Germanic *luftijaną ‘to raise in the air’

Old Norse lypta ‘to lift’

Middle English liften

English lift

Today it means

noun A blepharoplasty performed for cosmetic reasons.

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