{"id":9507,"date":"2014-01-09T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2014-01-09T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:03:53","slug":"the-apple-of-ones-eyeball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9507","title":{"rendered":"The apple of one’s eye(ball)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I came across the Dutch word oog<\/strong> [o\u02d0x], which means ‘spot; hole; period (of time); eye’ – I was looking for the equivalent of eye when I found it. Words like this with double o just appeal to me for some reason and I have to keep reminding myself that they the oo is not pronounced \/u\u02d0\/, as you might expect in English. <\/p>\n

Other words in Dutch with double o include:<\/p>\n

– ook = too, also, likewise, which always reminds me of how the librarian<\/a> speaks in Terry Practhett’s Discworld stories (oook, eeek!)
\n– ooftboom = fruit tree
\n– ooi = ewe
\n– oom = uncle
\n– oor = handle; ear
\n– oord = place; spot
\n– oost = east<\/p>\n

Eye-related words and expressions include:<\/p>\n

– ogen = to look
\n– oogappel = eyeball (‘eye apple’)
\n– oogarts = ophtalmologist; oculist (‘eye doctor’)
\n– oog in oog = face to face (‘eye in eye’)
\n– in het oog krijgen = to perceive, to descry (‘to get in the eye’)
\n– in het oog springen = to catch the eye, to stand out (‘to spring\/jump in the eye’)
\n– in het oog vallend = striking (‘falling in the eye’)
\n– met het oog op = considering (‘with the eye up\/on’)
\n– uit het oog verliezen = to lose out of sight (‘to lose out of the eye’)<\/p>\n

Source: bab.la Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I came across the Dutch word oog [o\u02d0x], which means ‘spot; hole; period (of time); eye’ – I was looking for the equivalent of eye when I found it. Words like this with double o just appeal to me for some reason and I have to keep reminding myself that they the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}