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
dje traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Papiamentu e
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Papiamentu | e | he, she, third person singular; the |
| 2 | Spanish | éste | this one |
| 3 | Latin | iste | that near you; those in the plural |
| 4 | Latin | hāc | this way; these; in this place (or way) |
| 5 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 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 | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |