window
Did a house really have a wind-eye?
What do you notice?
English, now
window
Old Norse: wind-eye
vindauga
Reconstructed
Reconstructed. We do not have a recording.
Two older words, hiding in one.
Window hides two older words: wind and eye.
Old English had other names, like eye-hole. The Norse compound won.
Look at a window from outside. The word is naming the opening. Glass is furniture for that opening.
You can stop here. The word already moved.
Go find a traveling word
The screen was the door.
More ways to look outside