Where does “هو” come from?

هو (Arabic) comes from Proto-Semitic *šuʔa — he (masculine third-person singular personal pronoun).

هو (Arabic): he; it; copulative force

Definitions

  1. he; it; copulative force

Ancestry of “هو”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semitic*šuʔahe (masculine third-person singular personal pronoun)

Words derived from “هو

Every word from Proto-Semitic *šuʔa
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