Where does “we” come from?

we (Scots) comes from Middle English we, from Old English wē, from Proto-West Germanic wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic wīz, from Proto-Indo-European wéy, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

we (Scots): we

Definitions

  1. we

Ancestry of “we”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishweFirst-person plural pronoun: we; First-person...
2Old Englishwēwe
3Proto-West Germanicwiʀwe
4Proto-Germanicwīzwe
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwéywe
6Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I
Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ →