qui
Middle French
pronoun
Definitions
- who
- which (when referring to a non-human)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French qui inherited from Latin quī (who, which, the relative pronoun, why, how, what, that) inherited from Old Latin quei inherited from Proto-Italic *kʷoi inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos (which, adverbial suffix, who, that).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷos
Gloss
which, adverbial suffix, who, that
Concept
Semantic Field
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aliqui Latin
- atqui Latin
- nequam Latin
- quem Latin
- quem, quĕm Latin
- qui Latin
- qui bene amat, bene castigat Latin
- quicum Latin
- quicumque Latin
- quilibet Latin
- quivis Latin
- quī Latin
- che Italian
- qui French
- que Spanish, Castilian
- πόθεν Ancient Greek
- πότερος Ancient Greek
- *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷe- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷis Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷis, *kʷos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷos Proto-Indo-European
- *ne Proto-Indo-European
- *hwaz Proto-Germanic
- कश्चित् Sanskrit
- *kogъda Proto-Slavic
- *kъjь Proto-Slavic
- *kъto Proto-Slavic
- qui Old French
- pan Welsh
- qua Ido
- cuin Old Irish
- që Albanian
- *kʷoi Proto-Italic
- *kas Proto-Balto-Slavic
- ki Haitian, Haitian Creole
- kiyès Haitian, Haitian Creole
- ki Mauritian Creole
- kisann-la Mauritian Creole
- kî Walloon
- quei Old Latin
- 𐌂𐌖𐌉 Faliscan