We
/wiː/noun
The first-person plural pronoun used by a speaker to refer to themselves and one or more others.
Did you know?English we descends from the same Proto-Indo-European pronoun that also gave Latin vīs? No—more securely, it comes from a family of ancient plural pronouns that spread across Indo-European languages, preserving one of the oldest grammatical distinctions in human speech.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*wéy
“First-person plural pronoun, "we"”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*wīz
“We”
Old English
English
wē
“We”
Middle English
English
we
“We”
Modern English
English
we
“We”