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us

Pronunciation: /uːs/

“us” is a Middle English word. Its 3 meanings in English:

pronoun

  1. First-person plural accusative pronoun: us.
  2. ourselves.
  3. each other.

Etymology

From Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”).

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