Where did this word "window" come from?

The interplay among English, French, and German fascinates me.

High level English has a lot in common with French: question, habitate, boulevard, pensive. Low level English has a lot in common with German: hand, wait, hound, fire.

But then there are words where French and German are closer to each other than English. The best example is the word for window: fenêtre (French) / Fenster (German). Completely different from English. So where'd we get our word from?

The answer is Norse. Our word "window" comes from the Norse compound word "vind-auga," meaning wind-eye. [Source: Dictionary.com]

The words we use today are amazing. They seem so familiar, but they are in fact ancient relics. They're like ... silverware ... that we inherited from our grandparents, who in turn had inherited them from *their* grandparents.

Where did this spoon come from? Why doesn't it match all the others? Why did grandma prefer this one? We don't know, but we use it just the same, just stirring our coffee, and spending hardly a moment to think about it....