Etymograph

English

eyeshot

From eye + shot, on the pattern of earshot.

A compound of eye + shot

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- ‘eye’

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-West Germanic *augā

Old English ēage

Middle English e

English eye

Today it means

noun A range of vision, a distance in which something is visible.

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

Etymograph / eyeshot