Where does “we” come from?

we (Middle English) comes from Old English wē, from Proto-West Germanic wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic wīz, from Proto-Indo-European wéy, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

we (Middle English): First-person plural pronoun: we; First-person...

Definitions

  1. First-person plural pronoun: we; First-person...

Ancestry of “we”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishwe
2Proto-West Germanicwiʀwe
3Proto-Germanicwīzwe
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwéywe
5Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I

Words derived from “we

Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂
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