Where does “isi” come from?
isi (Réunion Creole French) comes from French içi, from Old French ci, from Latin ecce hic, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e), from Proto-Indo-European gʰi-ḱe — resin, gum; to say, speak.
isi (Réunion Creole French): here
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Ancestry of “isi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | içi | Archaic spelling of ici; Misspelling of ici |
| 2 | Old French | ci | here |
| 3 | Latin | ecce hic | here (emphatic) |
| 4 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 5 | Latin | heic | — |
| 6 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 10 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 11 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 12 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 13 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 14 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |