Where does “u-” come from?

u- (Southern Ndebele) comes from Proto-Bantu ʊ́- — Class 1 subject concord.

u- (Southern Ndebele): you, thou; second-person singular subject concord

Definitions

  1. you, thou; second-person singular subject concord

Ancestry of “u-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Bantuʊ́-Class 1 subject concord
Every word from Proto-Bantu ʊ́-