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: Inherited from Old East Slavic мꙑ (my), from Proto-Slavic *my. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic мꙑ (my). Also akin to Lithuanian mẽs and Old Armenian մեք (mekʻ).
we, us; the first-person plural pronoun. · I, me; the first-person singular pronoun, used to show deference to the listener or in poetic contexts.
köken: From Middle Persian 𐭫𐭭𐭤 (LNE /amāh/, “we, us”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎶𐎠𐎧𐎶 (amāxam) (genitive plural form of the first person plural pronoun), ultimately from the variant *mey of Proto-Indo-European *wéy. Compare Proto-Slavic *my, Lithuanian mẽs and Old Armenian մեք (mekʻ).
we: first-person plural personal pronoun, plural of मैं (ma͠i) · I: first-person personal singular personal pronoun
köken: Inherited from Old Hindi हम (hama), हंम (haṃma), from Apabhramsa अम्हे (amhe), from Prakrit 𑀅𑀫𑁆𑀳𑁂 (amhe), from Ashokan Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit अस्मे (asme) (locative of वयम् (vayam, “we”)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *asmáy, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé. Compare Punjabi ਅਸੀਂ (asī̃), Assamese আমি (ami), Bengali আমি (ami), Marathi आम्ही (āmhī), Konkani आमि (āmi), Bhojpuri 𑂯𑂧 (ham).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic *me. The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (met).