eyelid
English
Etymology
From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, eiȝelid, eghe-lydd, yȝe-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, equivalent to eye + lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”).
Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɪ.lɪd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪlɪd
Noun
eyelid (plural eyelids)
- A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 41:18, column 2:
- By his neeſings a light doth ſhine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.
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Translations
(anatomy) a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye
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