Where does “yelẹ” come from?

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

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

Definitions

  1. they (third-person plural emphatic pronoun)

Ancestry of “yelẹ”, step by step

yelẹ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European yé-

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

via Gun lẹ́

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