An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/wir

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, W
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2557723An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, W — wirJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

wir, pronoun, ‘we,’ from the equivalent Middle High German and Old High German wir; corresponding to Gothic weis, Old Saxon wî, Dutch wij, Anglo-Saxon wê, English we. The common Teutonic wîz, with a secondary nominative suffix s, is based on Aryan wei, whence Sanscrit vayám, ‘we.’ The declension of wir, which is supplemented by uns, belongs to grammar.