глаз

• глазъ (glaz) (Pre-reform orthography (1918))

From Old East Slavic глазъ (glazŭ, “ball, eye”), from Proto-Slavic *glazъ (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʰ)el- (“round, spherical, stone”).

• IPA^(key): [ɡlas]

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• Homophones: глас (glas)
• Rhymes: -as

глаз • (glaz) m inan (genitive гла́за, nominative plural глаза́, genitive plural глаз)

1. eye
2. eyesight
3. view, opinion

• Note on irregular forms — глаза́ (glazá) is actually an old nominative dual form. The genitive plural in глаз (glaz) is also an archaic form.

• о́ко (óko) (dated, poetic or in set expressions)

• глаза́стый (glazástyj)
• глазе́ть (glazétʹ)
• глазно́й (glaznój)
• глазо́к (glazók)
• гла́зик (glázik)
• глазоме́р (glazomér)
• гла́зки (glázki)
• глазу́нья (glazúnʹja)
• де́лать больши́е глаза́ (délatʹ bolʹšíje glazá)
• за глаза́ (za glazá)

• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “глаз”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
• Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glazъ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 06, Moscow: Nauka, page 117