Where does “yelɛ” come from?

yelɛ (Gun) comes from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.

yelɛ (Gun): they (third-person plural emphatic pronoun)

Definitions

  1. they (third-person plural emphatic pronoun)

Ancestry of “yelɛ”, step by step

yelɛ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European yé-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
2Chichewaiyehe, she

via Gun lɛ́

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Gunlɛ́—
Every word from Chichewa iye →Every word from Proto-Indo-European yé- →