Where does “jener” come from?

jener (Old High German) comes from Germanic *jain, from Proto-Germanic jainaz, from Proto-Indo-European i- — that; he; a pronomial stem.

jener (Old High German): that

Definitions

  1. that

Ancestry of “jener”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanic*jain—
2Proto-Germanicjainazthat over there, yon
3Proto-Indo-Europeani-that; he; a pronomial stem

Words derived from “jener”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European i- →