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The - Etymology | | The - Etymology: Encyclopedia II - The - Etymology | | The existence of a definite article is not believed by linguists to be shared by the common ancestor of the Indo-European languages (Proto-Indo-European). Most of the older languages do not employ them; there is no article in Latin, Sanskrit, or in conservative Indo-European languages like Russian, but it does exist in Greek. As in the etymologies of many other languages, the word originally entered the language as a demonstrative pronoun or adjective; compare the fate of the Latin demonstrative ille in the Romance languages, becoming French le, la and les, Spanish el and la, and Italian il ...
See also:The, The - Etymology, The - Use and pronunciation, The - Omission, The - Examples | | | The, The - Etymology, The - Examples, The - Omission, The - Use and pronunciation, A, an, Teh | | |
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The existence of a definite article is not believed by linguists to be shared by the common ancestor of the Indo-European languages (Proto-Indo-European). Most of the older languages do not employ them; there is no article in Latin, Sanskrit, or in conservative Indo-European languages like Russian, but it does exist in Greek. As in the etymologies of many other languages, the word originally entered the language as a demonstrative pronoun or adjective; compare the fate of the Latin demonstrative ille in the Romance languages, becoming French le, la and les, Spanish el and la, and Italian il and la, among others.
The and that are common developments from the same Old English system. Old English had a definite article se, in the masculine gender, seo, feminine, and þæt, neuter. In Middle English these had all merged into þe (þ=th), the ancestor of the Modern English word.
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