Where does “te” come from?

te (Middle French) comes from Old French te, from Latin tē, from Latin tū, from Proto-Italic tū, from Proto-Indo-European túh₂ — you, thou.

te (Middle French): you, "second-person singular object pronoun"; to...

Definitions

  1. you, "second-person singular object pronoun"; to...

Ancestry of “te”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchteyou; to you; yourself
2Latintē—
3Latintūyou (singular); thou
4Proto-Italictūyou
5Proto-Indo-Europeantúh₂you, thou

Words derived from “te”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European túh₂ →Every word from Proto-Italic tū →Every word from Latin tū →