u
Dutch (Brabantic)
/y/
pronoun
Definitions
- (personal) you polite.
- (personal) you polite.
- (personal) thee dialectal.
- (personal) you polite.
- (personal) you polite.
- (reflexive pronoun) thyself dialectal
- (reflexive pronoun) yourselves dialectal
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch u inherited from Old Dutch iu inherited from *iwwiz inherited from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (gem-pro, you) derived from Proto-Indo-European *yū́ (you).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*yū́
Gloss
you
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
君
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- YouTube English
- allyou English
- thank-you English
- whatchoo English
- you English
- you-know-what English
- you-know-who English
- youness English
- yous English
- youz English
- yuh English
- als Dutch, Flemish
- alstublieft Dutch, Flemish
- belieft Dutch, Flemish
- het Dutch, Flemish
- lui Dutch, Flemish
- ului Dutch, Flemish
- uzelf Dutch, Flemish
- wablief Dutch, Flemish
- wat Dutch, Flemish
- zelf Dutch, Flemish
- вы Russian
- *yūs Proto-Indo-European
- *yū́ Proto-Indo-European
- *iwwiz Proto-Germanic
- *izwiz Proto-Germanic
- *jīz Proto-Germanic
- *jūz Proto-Germanic
- eow Old English
- ēow Old English
- you Middle English
- *vy Proto-Slavic
- u Middle Dutch
- iu Old High German
- iuwih Old High German
- դուք Old Armenian
- u Afrikaans
- *iwwiz gmw-pro
- *jū Old Dutch
- iu Old Dutch
- iuwa Old Dutch
- *yúH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- iu Old Saxon
- *wōs Proto-Italic
- jo Western Frisian
- ju Old Frisian
- jū Old Frisian
- ablif Papiamentu
- yu Tok Pisin
- *ju(s) Proto-Albanian
- *ju-su Proto-Albanian
- *yu- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- yu Sranan Tongo
- 𐬫𐬏𐬲𐬆𐬨 Avestan
- yu Bislama
- iu Pijin
- yu Torres Strait Creole
- yu Nigerian Pidgin