"Eye" evolving from the Bronze Age to today

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A man shows how the word "eye" evolved through time to become the word we are familiar with today. The evolution features many small phonetic changes that allowed the word to take on a completely new pronunciation after 6000 years.

Posted by Matthew Ransom on May 12, 2026

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Change;
Language Shift;
Phonetics

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