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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)

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