qui
French
pron
Definitions
- (interrogative) who, whom
- (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French qui inherited from Old French qui inherited from Latin quī (who, which, the relative pronoun, why, how, what, that) inherited from Old Latin quei inherited from Proto-Italic *kʷoi inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, *kʷos.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷis, *kʷos
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aliqui Latin
- atqui Latin
- equis Latin
- nequam Latin
- quem Latin
- quem, quĕm Latin
- qui Latin
- qui bene amat, bene castigat Latin
- quicum Latin
- quicumque Latin
- quid Latin
- quilibet Latin
- quis Latin
- quivis Latin
- quī Latin
- ut Latin
- altroché Italian
- benché Italian
- che Italian
- checchessia Italian
- chicchessia Italian
- conciossiaché Italian
- dappoiché Italian
- dopoché Italian
- dopodiché Italian
- oltreché Italian
- piuccheperfetto Italian
- pressoché Italian
- qualche Italian
- que Spanish, Castilian
- ποιός Ancient Greek
- ποῖος Ancient Greek
- ποῦ Ancient Greek
- πόθι Ancient Greek
- πῃ Ancient Greek
- πῇ Ancient Greek
- πῶς Ancient Greek
- ὅπου Ancient Greek
- *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷis Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷis, *kʷos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷos Proto-Indo-European
- qui Old French
- qua Ido
- quo Ido
- që Albanian
- qui Middle French
- *kʷoi Proto-Italic
- ki Haitian, Haitian Creole
- kiyès Haitian, Haitian Creole
- ki Mauritian Creole
- kifer Mauritian Creole
- kisann-la Mauritian Creole
- kî Walloon
- chi Ladin
- chì Corsican
- quei Old Latin
- 𐌂𐌖𐌉 Faliscan