Where does “iou” come from?
iou (Aromanian) comes from Portuguese eu, from Old Portuguese eu, from Latin eō, from Proto-Italic eō, from Proto-Italic ejō, from Proto-Indo-European h₁éyti, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ey- — to go.
iou (Aromanian): me; I
Definitions
- me; I
Ancestry of “iou”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | eu | I; "first-person singular prepositional pronoun";... |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | eu | I |
| 3 | Latin | eō | to go, to fare, to move (oneself) (any kind of animate or inanimate motion: walk, ride, sail, fly, etc.) |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | eō | I go |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | ejō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁éyti | to go, to be going |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ey- | to go |