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Where does “वयम्” come from?

वयम् (Sanskrit) comes from Proto-Indo-Aryan wayám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian wayám, from Proto-Indo-European wéy, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

वयम् (Sanskrit): we

Definitions

  1. we

Ancestry of “वयम्”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Aryanwayám—
2Proto-Indo-Iranianwayámnominative plural of *aȷ́ʰám
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwéywe
4Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I
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