Where does “ici” come from?
ici (Ido) comes from Ido ico, from Ido ica, from French cé, from Spanish éste, from Latin iste, from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic — whale, sea monster; abyss.
ici (Ido): plural of ica; these; plural of ico
Definitions
- plural of ica; these; plural of ico
Ancestry of “ici”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ido | ico | this |
| 2 | Ido | ica | this |
| 3 | French | cé | The name of the Latin-script letter C |
| 4 | Spanish | éste | this one |
| 5 | Latin | iste | that ; those; that one ; that ; those ones ;... |
| 6 | Latin | hāc | — |
| 7 | Latin | hīc | — |
| 8 | Latin | heic | — |
| 9 | Latin | hic | this; these; this one; this ; these ones ; these... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 15 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 16 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |