nominative masculine singular definite article, the
köken: From Middle High German dër, from Old High German dër, replacing the original masculine and feminine nominative forms from Proto-Germanic *sa, by analogy with the adjective inflection. Compare also Old Dutch thie and Old English sē where the same process occurred.
that; referring to a thing or a person further away. · those; referring to things or people further away. · a certain, a particular; some; this; referring to a thing or a person invisible or unknown to the audience.
eş: dat
köken: From Middle Dutch die, a merger of Old Dutch thie, thē, thia, thiu and similar forms of the demonstrative. As in Old High German ther, der it replaced the original masculine and feminine nominative forms from Proto-Germanic *sa.
distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon · that one we both know (both the speaker and the addressee know) · third-person personal pronoun: he, she, that person
köken: From older kare → are. Compound of あ (a, “that, yon”) + れ (-re, nominalizing suffix for demonstratives).
they (plural, only of people) · he, she, one, (singular) they (of a single human being, like hän) · they (in indirect speech: referring to the subjects of the main clause, regardless of whether they are human beings or not, i.e. logophoric pronoun)
çekim: çoğul het · tamlayan hen
eş: het, hyö, ne
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hek, from Proto-Finno-Permic *sej (compare Northern Sami sii, Erzya сынь (sïń), Northern Khanty [script needed] (ᴧĭw)). The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (het). See hän for more details on history of usage.
aile: heidänlainen, heidänlaisensa, heikäläinen
He tulevat huomenna, jos heille ei ilmaannu estettä.
köken: From Vulgar Latin *eccum illī, nominative masculine plural of *eccum ille, from Latin eccum + ille. Compare Aromanian atselj, Italian quei, quelli, Spanish aquellos.
köken: The pronoun and determiner senses probably derive from an earlier a + a pronoun-forming suffix -z, where the former element originates from Proto-Uralic *o or *u (“that, that other”). Its cognates include Moksha омба (omba, “other”), омбоце (omboce, “second”), Eastern Mari умбал (umbal, “far, distant”), Udmurt отын (otyn, “there”) and Komi-Zyrian ата (ata, “here”), асы (asy, “look here”). The…
köken: From Old Danish thē, from Old Norse þeir, from Proto-Germanic *þai. Usage of this word as a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun is a semantic loan from English they.
köken: Diachronically, this is probably a Northern Vietnamese innovation occured some time between the stages of Proto-Vietnamese and attested Northern Old Vietnamese. It is amply attested in the oldest Nôm texts (which are all in Northern Old Vietnamese or its offshoot(s)), yet has no cognate in the Muong lects, and usage of this morpheme by Central and Southern speakers clearly indicates borrowing. It…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *a-tu (“that thing”), equivalent to அ- (a-, distal pronominal base) + -து (-tu). Cognate with Kannada ಅದು (adu), Malayalam അത് (atŭ), Telugu అది (adi).