aveugle

from Old French avogle, aveule, from Vulgar Latin ab oculis "without eyes" (5th or 6th century, Actus Petri cum Simone), possibly a calque of Gaulish exs-ops "blind". A semi-learned evolution compared to aveuil, the popular outcome continued in Berrichon. It eliminated cieu and orb in Old French, from classical Latin caecus ("blind") and orbus ("deprived", "lacking").