Where does “yee” come from?

yee (Middle English) comes from Middle English ye, from Old English ġē, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

yee (Middle English): Alternative form of ye

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of ye

Ancestry of “yee”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishyeSecond-person plural pronoun: ye, you;...
2Old Englishġēye
3Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
4Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
5Proto-Germanic-hwe—
6Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Proto-Germanic -hw →Every word from Proto-Germanic jahw →