Etymograph

English

roundeye

From round + eye.

A compound of round + eye

Old Northern French rount

Middle English round ‘spherical, round’

English round

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 Westerner (from the purported point of view of an Asian or other person with naturally narrower eyes).

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “roundeye”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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