Etymology

we's

English 's ← Middle English we ← Old English wē
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*wéy
  2. Proto-Germanic*wīz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wiʀ
  4. Old Englishwē
  5. Middle Englishwe
  6. Englishwe
  7. English's
  8. English todaywe's

From we + 's (contraction of is, has, and was).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.