Ey
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Middle English: originally Scots.
wiktionary
From Middle English ei, ey, from Old English ǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.
This native English form was displaced by the Old Norse derived egg in the 16th century, most likely due to its clashing with the word eye, wherewith it had come to be a homonym.
From Middle English ei, from Old English ieġ, from Proto-West Germanic *auwju from Proto-Germanic *awjō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.
Coined in the year 1975 by one Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from they.
