Where does “i'” come from?
i' (Neapolitan) comes from Neapolitan io, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆, from Proto-Italic egō, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.
i' (Neapolitan): Alternative form of io
Ancestry of “i'”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Neapolitan | io | I, the first-person singular nominative pronoun |
| 2 | Late Latin | eo | — |
| 3 | Classical Latin | egō̆ | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | egō | I |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | éǵh₂ | I |