Where does “dje” come from?
dje (Albanian) comes from Papiamentu e, from Spanish éste, from Latin iste, from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e) — resin.
dje (Albanian): yesterday; yesterday, the day before
Definitions
- yesterday; yesterday, the day before
Ancestry of “dje”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Papiamentu | e | he, she, third person singular; the |
| 2 | Spanish | éste | this one |
| 3 | Latin | iste | that ; those; that one ; that ; those ones ;... |
| 4 | Latin | hāc | — |
| 5 | Latin | hīc | — |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these; this one; this ; these ones ; these... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | — |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |