the plural personal pronoun in the first person: · us, to us · we (as the royal we)
eş: on
köken: Inherited from Middle French nous, from Old French nous, nos, from Latin nōs, from Proto-Italic *nōs. In several dialects of French, je may be used instead of nous (j'allons instead of nous allons, je voyons instead of nous voyons etc.), this use was perceived as peasant-like and thus often mocked since the 15th century (for example by Molière). However this use survived and spread in various…
aile: ce que c'est que de nous !, entre nous, nous autres, nous de majesté, nous-mêmes
köken: From cuerdo (“prudent, sane”) + -ura. The former is a back-formation from Latin cordātus (“wise, prudent”), from cor (“heart”) (genitive singular cordis).
köken: From Old Latin caussa, from Proto-Italic *kaussā, further origin unknown. Connected by some to Latin cudo (“to strike”), in the sense "strike a cause," in which the Proto-Indo-European form would be *kewh₂-ud-ʰ-t-, from *kewh₂- (“to cut, strike”). Others are skeptical of an Indo-European origin. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌅𐌔𐌀 (cavsa).
aile: accūsō, causārius, causidicus, causor, causula, excūsō, incūsō, recūsō
qua de causa/qua de re/quam ob causam
Ille diēs prīmus lētī prīmusque malōrum causa fuit …. That day – a first of death, and onset of misery – it was the cause [of everything].
SĪMŌ: Nē haec quidem / satis vehemēns causa ad objūrgandum.
köken: From Middle Low German vornuft, cognate with German Vernunft, derived from the verb Vernehmen (“realize, learning, taking”). Equivalent to a verbal noun of fornemme.