Where does “ce” come from?

ce (Neapolitan) comes from Latin ecce, from Latin -ce, from Proto-Italic ke, from Indo-European *ḱe.

ce (Neapolitan): there

Definitions

  1. there

Ancestry of “ce”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latineccesee!, look!, behold!, points out something with...
2Latin-ceaffixed, usually to demonstratives, forming...
3Proto-Italickehere
4Indo-European*ḱe—
Every word from Indo-European *ḱe →Every word from Latin -ce →Every word from Proto-Italic ke →