Where does “” come from?

wü (North Frisian) comes from Old Frisian wī, from Proto-West Germanic wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic wīz, from Proto-Indo-European wéy, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

(North Frisian): we first-person plural personal pronoun

Definitions

  1. we first-person plural personal pronoun

Ancestry of “”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frisianwe
2Proto-West Germanicwiʀwe
3Proto-Germanicwīzwe
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwéywe
5Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I
Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂Every word from Proto-Indo-European wéyEvery word from Proto-Germanic wīz