wij
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ʋɛi̯/, /ʋə/
pronoun
Definitions
- the first-person plural personal pronoun, refers to the speakers
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch wi inherited from Old Dutch wī inherited from Proto-Germanic *wīz derived from Proto-Indo-European *wéy- (we).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wéy-
Gloss
we
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Other
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- we English
- weism English
- whenwe English
- wir German
- lui Dutch, Flemish
- wijlui Dutch, Flemish
- *wéy Proto-Indo-European
- *wéy- Proto-Indo-European
- *wiz Proto-Germanic
- *wīz Proto-Germanic
- vi Norwegian Nynorsk
- we Old English
- wē Old English
- we Middle English
- vér Old Norse
- vír Old Norse
- vi Danish
- vér Icelandic
- wi Middle Dutch
- wir Old High German
- vær Faroese
- wir Middle High German
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 Gothic
- *wiʀ gmw-pro
- wi Old Dutch
- wī Old Dutch
- wi Old Saxon
- vir, vīr Old Swedish
- ve Westrobothnian
- wy Western Frisian
- wi Old Frisian
- wī Old Frisian
- wi Sranan Tongo
- wi Jamaican Creole