Where does “icelui” come from?
icelui (French) comes from Vulgar Latin *ecce illui, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
icelui (French): this one
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Ancestry of “icelui”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vulgar Latin | *ecce illui | — |
| 2 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 3 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |