Talk:アイキャッチ

Etym
, any chance that this is derived not as wasei eigo, but instead as a clipping of ? This longer term appears in various online references, such as here at Kotobank or here at Weblio. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 00:10, 29 June 2022 (UTC)


 * It sounds plausible, but I don't know the actual history. My first thought was that it may be related to or influenced by . (FWIW, the OED dates eye-catching to 1770 and eye-catcher to 1787.) In any case, there is probably some link to eye and forms of catch, but I don't know what the precise nature of that link is. Cnilep (talk) 01:08, 29 June 2022 (UTC)