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window – podictionary 224
July 08, 2010
From 2006
The other day on the blog The Oxford Etymologist Anatoly Liberman just happened to mention in passing that the word "window" evolved from an earlier pair of words "wind" and "eye."
So a window is the space in the wall where the wind looks in;
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