Where does “ס׳איז” come from?
ס׳איז (Yiddish) comes from Yiddish איז, from Middle High German ist, from Old High German ist, from Proto-West Germanic *ist, from Proto-Germanic isti, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ēs-.
Ancestry of “ס׳איז”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Yiddish | איז | is: third-person singular present of זײַן |
| 2 | Middle High German | ist | — |
| 3 | Old High German | ist | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *ist | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | isti | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ēs- | — |