Where does “ego” come from?
Ego comes from Latin ego, derived from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂, a first-person pronoun meaning "I" that remains unchanged in the oldest reconstructed form.
ego (English): The self, especially with a sense of...
Definitions
- The self, especially with a sense of...
Ancestry of “ego”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | egō | — |
| 2 | Proto-Italic | egō | I |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | éǵh₂ | I |