köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic они (oni), from Proto-Slavic *onъ. The prefixation of /n/ after prepositions comes from Proto-Slavic prepositions such as *sъ(n) (“with”) (compare Ancient Greek σύν (sún) and Latin cum), that originally ended in *-n and governed oblique cases. Since the prepositions and the pronouns occurred together so often, it was easy to lose track of which word the final *-n…
köken: Inherited from Chagatai اولار (ʾwlār), from Proto-Turkic *o-lar. By surface analysis, u (“that; he/she/it”) + -lar (plural suffix). Cognate with Uyghur ئۇلار / ular / улар. Compare also Azerbaijani اونلار / онлар / onlar and Turkish onlar.
this one; he; she; it (proximal third person singular personal pronoun)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *éy Proto-Indo-European *só Proto-Indo-Iranian *ayšá Sanskrit ए॒ष (eṣá) Prakrit एसो (eso) Apabhramsa एहु (ehu) Old Hindi यहु (yahu) Hindi यह Inherited from Old Hindi यहु (yahu), from Apabhramsa एहु m (ehu), एह f (eha), from Prakrit 𑀏𑀲𑁄 m (eso), 𑀏𑀲𑀸 f (esā), from Sanskrit एषः m (eṣaḥ), एषा f (eṣā).
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.