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Old English ūs, accusative and dative of we, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ons and German uns .


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From Middle English us, from Old English ūs(“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns(“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n̥smé(“us”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus(“us”), West Frisian us, ús(“us”), Low German us(“us”), Dutch ons(“us”), German uns(“us”), Danish os(“us”), Latin nōs(“we, us”).

Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.

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us (pron.)

Old English us (cognate with Old Saxon, Old Frisian us, Old Norse, Swedish oss, Dutch ons, German uns), accusative and dative plural of we, from PIE *nes- (2), forming oblique cases of the first person plural personal pronoun (source also of Sanskrit nas, Avestan na, Hittite nash "us;" Greek no "we two;" Latin nos "we, us;" Old Church Slavonic ny "us," nasu "our;" Old Irish ni, Welsh ni "we, us"). The -n- is preserved in Germanic in Dutch ons, German uns.




US

also U.S., abbreviation of United States, attested from 1834. U.S.A. for "United States of America" is recorded from 1885; before that it generally meant "U.S. Army."