seu

Portuguese

/sew/

pron

Definitions

your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun você)
his; her; its.
their; theirs
your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun vocês)
you used before epithets for emphasis

Etymology

Inherited from Old Portuguese seu inherited from Latin suus (one's own, his own, its, her, his) inherited from Proto-Italic *sowos inherited from Proto-Indo-European *sewos.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*sewos

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*seus Latin
suus Latin
suus, suum Latin
suo Italian
sien French
*sewos Proto-Indo-European
*swoyos Proto-Indo-European
seu Galician
seus Galician
seu Old Portuguese
*sowos Proto-Italic
so Friulian
seu Ligurian
*sovos Old Latin
sei Fala
su Indo-Portuguese