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Where does “wē” come from?

wē (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic wīz, from Proto-Indo-European wéy, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

wē (Old English): we

Definitions

  1. we

Ancestry of “wē”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicwiʀwe
2Proto-Germanicwīzwe
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwéywe
4Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I

Words derived from “wē”

  • whenwe
  • Wii
  • weism
  • vue
  • we
  • ve
  • woe
  • wi
  • wi
  • we
Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ →