Where does “we” come from?

we (Gullah) comes from English we, from Middle English we, from Old English wē, from Proto-West Germanic wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic wīz, from Proto-Indo-European wéy, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

we (Gullah): (first-person plural subject) we

Definitions

  1. (first-person plural subject) we

Ancestry of “we”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishweThe speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and...
2Middle EnglishweFirst-person plural pronoun: we; First-person...
3Old Englishwēwe
4Proto-West Germanicwiʀwe
5Proto-Germanicwīzwe
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwéywe
7Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I
Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ →