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Vagl also survives in Icelandic vagl ` a film over the eyes 'and in Swedish vagel ` a sty in the eye.'
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English wall - < Middle English wawil - < Old Norse vagl-trace further back to Germanic * waglaz, and thence to a
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The wall - element is thus traced to Old Norse vagl ` wooden beam, roost, perch. '
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MW3 has Old Norse vagl ` beam, roost; beam in the eye 'akin to Old Norse vega ` to move, to carry, to lift,' so the semantic connection may be by way of the notion of ` carrying. '
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