Where does “xe” come from?
xe (Vietnamese) comes from French cé, from Spanish éste, from Latin iste, from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e) — resin.
xe (Vietnamese): to get out of one's way; The name of the...
Definitions
- to get out of one's way; The name of the...
Ancestry of “xe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | cé | The name of the Latin-script letter C |
| 2 | Spanish | éste | this one |
| 3 | Latin | iste | that ; those; that one ; that ; those ones ;... |
| 4 | Latin | hāc | — |
| 5 | Latin | hīc | — |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these; this one; this ; these ones ; these... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | — |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |