Etymograph

English

lash egg

From lash (“soft, watery, wet”) + egg.

A compound of lash ‘soft, watery, wet’ + egg

Proto-Germanic *laskô ‘flap of fabric, strap’

Middle English lashe ‘a stroke’

English lash

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm ‘egg’

Proto-Germanic *ajją ‘egg’

Old Norse egg ‘egg’

Middle English eg ‘egg of a domestic or wild fowl’

English egg

Today it means

noun an egg-shaped mass of tissue and pus, often containing remnants of egg material, that a hen expels due to an infection of her oviduct (salpingitis)

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

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