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The word window originates from the Old Norse ‘ vindauga ’, from ‘ vindr – wind ’ and ‘ auga – eye ’, i. e. " wind eye ".

In Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day ( in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi ), in Swedish the word vindöga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language ‘ vindue ’ and Norwegian Bokmål ‘ vindu ’, the direct link to ‘ eye ’ is lost, just like for ' window '.

The Danish ( but not the Bokmål ) word is pronounced fairly similarly to window.