Where does “wir” come from?

wir (Old High German) comes from Proto-West Germanic wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic wīz, from Proto-Indo-European wéy, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

wir (Old High German): we

Definitions

  1. we

Ancestry of “wir”, step by step

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

Words derived from “wir”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ →Every word from Proto-Indo-European wéy →Every word from Proto-Germanic wīz →