Where does “id” come from?

id (Danish) comes from Latin id, from Proto-Indo-European id.

id (Danish): pursuit, business, calling; id; ID

Definitions

  1. pursuit, business, calling; id; ID

Ancestry of “id”, step by step

id traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin id

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinidnominative neuter of is; it; accusative neuter of...
2Proto-Indo-Europeanid—

via Old Norse ið

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norseiðwork; a restless motion
Every word from Proto-Indo-European id →Every word from Latin id →