Noun: us
Sample Sentences
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There is no us.
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Us is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Nouns inflected like us
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé
3. Proto-Germanic *uns
4. Old English ūs
5. Middle English us
6. English us
7. From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”). See: Old English Nouns '
ūs', Dutch Nouns '
ons', Danish Nouns '
os', Latin Nouns '
nōs'.