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French word oui comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷ-, Old French il, Old French o, Vulgar Latin hoc ille, Vulgar Latin *hoc ille, and later Proto-Italic *okʷelos (Eye.)
*h₃ókʷ- (Proto-Indo-European)
il (Old French)
He (third-person masculine singular subject pronoun). They (third-person masculine plural subject pronoun).
o (Old French)
hoc ille (Vulgar Latin)
*hoc ille (Vulgar Latin)
*okʷelos (Proto-Italic)
Eye.
*okelos (Proto-Italic)
oculum (Latin)
oclus (Latin)
(Vulgar Latin) ("eye").
oclus (Vulgar Latin)
o il (Old French)
oui (French)
Yes Yes.