Or "lens" which comes from the Latin " lentil " or "window" meaning "eyeofwind" in old Norse?
有多少人知道”镜片”是来自于拉丁语中的”小扁豆”还有在古挪威语中”窗户”其实是指”风眼”呢?
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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."