Etymograph

English

V-form

V-form comes from Latin vos ‘you, ye, you all’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *yúHs.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yúHs‘you (plural)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wōs‘you’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvos‘you, ye, you all’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2002V-form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yúHs‘you (plural)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wōs‘you’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvos‘you, ye, you all’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2002V-form

Earliest quotation: 2002, The Bible Translator:: “In the Erzin dialect, children address their parents with…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *yúHs ‘you (plural)’

you, ye

Today it means

noun A second-person pronoun used in formal situations, to address unfamiliar people and superiors.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *yúHs / V-form

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