us

Meanings

Pronoun

• Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
• Me.
• Our.

Noun

• Plural of u

Origin

• From Middle English us, from Old English ūs ("us"), from Proto-Germanic *uns ("us"), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n̥smé. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus, West Frisian us, 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.