vi
Swedish
/viː/
pronoun
Definitions
- we (first-person personal plural subject pronoun)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish vir, vīr inherited from Old Norse vér inherited from Proto-Germanic *wīz inherited 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
- *wéy Proto-Indo-European
- *wéy- Proto-Indo-European
- *wiz Proto-Germanic
- *wīz Proto-Germanic
- kvi Norwegian Nynorsk
- vi Norwegian Nynorsk
- we Old English
- wē Old English
- hví Old Norse
- vit Old Norse
- vér Old Norse
- vír Old Norse
- hvi Danish
- vi Danish
- *my Proto-Slavic
- vér Icelandic
- wir Old High German
- vær Faroese
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 Gothic
- *wiʀ gmw-pro
- wi Old Dutch
- wī Old Dutch
- wi Old Saxon
- vir, vīr Old Swedish
- ve Westrobothnian
- *nōs Proto-Italic
- wi Old Frisian
- wī Old Frisian
- wes Tocharian B
- wįð Elfdalian