Where does “-que” come from?

-que (Old Latin) comes from Proto-Italic -kʷe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

-que (Old Latin): and, a copulative particle affixed to the word it...

Definitions

  1. and, a copulative particle affixed to the word it...

Ancestry of “-que”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italic-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
2Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷeEvery word from Proto-Italic -kʷe