we

we
\ \ [OE] We goes back ultimately to Indo- European *wei, which also produced Sanskrit vayámwe’. The precise process by which this evolved into German wir, Dutch wij, Swedish and Danish vi, and English we has never been unravelled.

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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