An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Ohr

by Friedrich Kluge

Ohr, neuter, from the equivalent Middle High German ôre, ôr, neuter, Old High German ôra, neuter, ‘ear’; corresponding terms are found in all the Teutonic languages; Old Saxon ôra, Dutch oor, Anglo-Saxon eáre, neuter, English ear, Old Icelandic eyra (with mutation on account of r, equivalent to Gothic and Teutonic z), Gothic ausô, neuter, ‘ear.’ Like many other terms for parts of the body (compare Fuß, Herz, Nagel, Niere, &c.), this word occurs also in other Aryan languages, Latin auris for *ausis (to which aus-cultare is akin, see hören), Greek οὖς (from *οῦσος), genitive ὦτός from (οὐσατός, allied to an n- stem like the Teutonic cognates), Old Slovenian ucho (genitive ušese), neuter, ‘ear,’ from ausos (with the dual uši), Lithuanian ausis. Compare the following word.