Where does “meie” come from?

meie (Estonian) comes from Proto-Finnic meiden, from Proto-Finnic mek, from Proto-Uralic me — we.

meie (Estonian): we

Definitions

  1. we

Ancestry of “meie”, step by step

meie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Finnic meiden

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicmeiden—
2Proto-Finnicmekwe
3Proto-Uralicmewe

via Proto-Finnic *mek

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnic*mek—

Words derived from “meie”

Every word from Proto-Uralic me →Every word from Proto-Finnic mek →Every word from Proto-Finnic meiden →