auga

auga

1. comitative singular of au

• agua, augua, augha
• agoa (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese auga (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), augua, agoa; from older agua (through metathesis), from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

• Hyphenation: au‧ga

auga f (plural augas)

1. (uncountable) water

   Auga corrente non mata xente (proverb) ― [Drinking] running water doesn't kill people

2. (countable, usually in the plural) baths, hot springs

• Augas Santas

• acuario
• acuático

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “auga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “auga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “auga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “auga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “auga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “auga”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).

auga

1. (Fårö) eye

From Old Norse auga, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Cognates include Latin oculus, Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 (augō), Old English ēage, English eye, Scots ee, German Auge, Swedish öga, Danish øje.

• IPA^(key): /ˈøyːɣa/, [ˈøːɥɣɐ]
• Rhymes: -øyːɣa

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auga n (genitive singular auga, nominative plural augu)

1. (anatomy) eye
   • Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)

     Inn vari gestur

     er til verðar kemur

     þunnu hljóði þegir,

     eyrum hlýðir,

     en augum skoðar.

     Svo nýsist fróðra hver fyrir.

     The knowing guest

     who goes to the feast,

     In silent attention sits;

     With his ears he hears,

     with his eyes he watches,

     Thus wary are wise men all.

auga m

1. genitive singular of augs

auga

1. inflection of augs:
   1. genitive masculine singular
   2. nominative feminine singular

auga

1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of augt

• IPA^(key): [ˈäˑʊ̯ɡɐ]

áuga

1. third-person singular present of augti
2. third-person plural present of augti

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

auga f (plural augas)

1. water

• auge

From Old Norse auga, from Proto-Germanic *augô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Akin to English eye.

• IPA^(key): /²æʉ̯(ɡ)ɑ/, /²œʉ̯(ɡ)ɑ/

auga n (plural augo)

1. eye (organ)

   Eg har noko på auga.

   Something is stuck in my eye.

2. eye (the visual sense); vision

   Augo mine er ikkje so gode som dei ein gong var.

   My eyes aren't as good as they once were.

auga n

1. definite plural of auge

• auge-, augne-
• øye (Bokmål)

• “auga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ɡa/

auga f (plural augas)

1. alternative form of agua

• Galician: auga
• Portuguese: auga

From Proto-Norse *ᚨᚢᚷᛟ (*augo), from Proto-Germanic *augô (whence Old English ēaġe, Old Saxon ōga, Old High German ouga, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 (augō)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”); compare Latin oculus, Old Church Slavonic око (oko).

auga n (genitive auga, plural augu)

1. eye

• augabrá (“eyebrow”)
• augabragð (“blink of an eye; a laughing stock”)
• augnamein (“disease of the eye”)
• eygja (“to eye”)
• eygr (“eyed”)

• Icelandic: auga
• Faroese: eyga
• Norwegian Nynorsk: auga n
• Norwegian: (dialectal) auga, aua, aue f or n, auwe, ouwe, ouga
• Jamtish: ouge
• Elfdalian: oga
• Old Swedish: ø̄gha
  • Swedish: öga
    • → Finnish: ööga
• Scanian: yva
• Old Danish: ø̄ghæ
  • Danish: øje
    • Norwegian Bokmål: øye
• Gutnish: auge

• Homophone: alga (Brazil)
• Rhymes: -awɡɐ
• Hyphenation: au‧ga

Metathesis of água. Compare Galician auga.

auga f (plural augas)

1. (Northern Portugal, Central Portugal) archaic form of água

• augar
• augado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

auga

1. inflection of augar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative