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Where does “eis” come from?

eis (Luxembourgish) comes from Old High German uns, from Proto-Germanic uns, from Proto-Indo-European n̥smé, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

eis (Luxembourgish): first-person plural, accusative: us; first-person...

Definitions

  1. first-person plural, accusative: us; first-person...

Ancestry of “eis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanuns—
2Proto-Germanicunsaccusative of *wīz; us
3Proto-Indo-Europeann̥sméus
4Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I
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