Where does “té” come from?

té (French) comes from Middle French te, from Old French te, from Latin tē, from Latin tū, from Proto-Italic tū, from Proto-Indo-European túh₂ — you, thou.

té (French): The name of the Latin-script letter T

Definitions

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T

Ancestry of “té”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchteyou, "second-person singular object pronoun"; to...
2Old Frenchteyou; to you; yourself
3Latintē—
4Latintūyou (singular); thou
5Proto-Italictūyou
6Proto-Indo-Europeantúh₂you, thou

Words derived from “té”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European túh₂ →Every word from Proto-Italic tū →Every word from Latin tū →