Where does “se” come from?

se (Kven) comes from Finnish se, from Proto-Finnic se, from Proto-Uralic śe — it.

se (Kven): this, that

Definitions

  1. this, that

Ancestry of “se”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishseit; that; he, she
2Proto-Finnicseit
3Proto-Uralicśeit
Every word from Proto-Uralic śe →Every word from Proto-Finnic se →Every word from Finnish se →
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