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

  1. The self, especially with a sense of...

Ancestry of “ego”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinegōI; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case
2Proto-ItalicegōI
3Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I

Words derived from “ego

Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂