Etymology

these

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Middle English þes ← Old English þas ← Proto-West Germanic *þes-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*só
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*sa“that”
  3. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*þes-
  4. Old English · inherited fromþas
  5. Middle English · inherited fromþes
  6. English todaythese

From Middle English þes, from Old English þas, from Proto-West Germanic *þes-, a form of Proto-Germanic *sa (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *só. Compare with German diese.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*sa all →

the

Proto-Indo-European*só all →

thesoonthereabout

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.