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 (distal demonstrative pronoun) · this (proximal demonstrative pronoun) · it (alternative form of ce as a subject of être in tenses other than the present and imperfect indicative)
köken: Syncopic contraction of cela (“that”), from ce + -là. Compare French ceci (“this”).
aile: à ça oui, accrochez-moi-ça, ça a été, ça alors, ça baigne, ça biche, ça bide, ça boume, ça comme, ça commence à bien faire
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic тъ (tŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, from Proto-Indo-European *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”).
that · he, she, it; that one (distal third person singular personal pronoun)
köken: Uncertain. Most likely from Old Hindi उहु (uhu), उहुं (uhuṃ), from Apabhramsa ओहु (ohu), from Prakrit 𑀅𑀳𑁄 (aho), from Sanskrit असौ (asau, “that”). The inflected forms are formed by analogy with its proximal counterpart यह (yah). For Old Hindi वो (vo), Chatterji suggested a derivation from Apabhramsa ओ (o), from Sanskrit *अव (*ava), attested in अवोष् (avoṣ), अवोर् (avor, “of you both”, gen. du.),…
köken: From Proto-Finnic *too, from Proto-Uralic *to (compare Erzya тона (tona), Hungarian tova). Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552), but only once in all of Agricola's works (for comparison, tämä is attested nearly two thousand times and se over ten thousand times).
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 Latin olle (“he, that”) (also ollus, olla), from Proto-Italic *olnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ol-no-s or *h₂l̥-no-s, from *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with Latin uls (“beyond”), alius (“other”), and alter (“the other”); Umbrian ulu (“to that place”), Old Church Slavonic лани (lani, “last year”, literally “in that (year)”). Initial i- from o- has no parallel case and owe to…
köken: Inherited from Malay itu, from Proto-Malayic *(i)tu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)tu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)Cu. In the third person singular pronoun sense, false cognate of English it.