myEtymology.com: Italian etymology of orecchia

Etymology of the Italian word orecchia

the Italian word orecchia

derived from the Latin word auricula (external ear; ear; sense of hearing)

derived from the Late Latin word auris (ear; hearing; a discriminating sense of hearing)

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ous-

Catalan aurella, Danish öre, Dutch aar, Dutch oor, English ear, French oreille, German Ähre, German Ohr, German Öhr, Gothic auso, Icelandic ax, Icelandic eyra, Italian orecchio, Latin auris, Nynorsk öyra, Portuguese orelha, Provençal aurelha, Riksmal öre, Spanish oreja, Swedish ax, Swedish öra, Yiddish ojr