Where does “ou” come from?

ou (Mauritian Creole) comes from French vous, from Middle French vous, from Old French vos, from Latin vōs, from Old Latin vōs, from Proto-Italic wōs, from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs — you (plural).

ou (Mauritian Creole): you

Definitions

  1. you

Ancestry of “ou”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchvousThe plural personal pronoun in the second person;...
2Middle Frenchvousyou; yourself
3Old Frenchvosyou; your; yourself
4Latinvōsyou, ye, you all
5Old Latinvōs—
6Proto-Italicwōsyou
7Proto-Indo-European*yúHsyou (plural)

Words derived from “ou”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs →Every word from Proto-Italic wōs →Every word from Old Latin vōs →