Where does “lu” come from?

lu (Ido) comes from Ido ilu, from French il, from Middle French il, from Old French il, from Latin illī, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.

lu (Ido): Third-person singular pronoun for referents of...

Definitions

  1. Third-person singular pronoun for referents of...

Ancestry of “lu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Idoiluhe, him
2Frenchilhe; it; Impersonal subject; it
3Middle Frenchilhe; it
4Old Frenchilhe; they
5Latinillīfound in
6Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
7LatinolleArchaic form of ille
8Proto-Italic*olnosthat

Words derived from “lu”

Every word from Proto-Italic *olnos →Every word from Latin olle →Every word from Latin ille →