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Italian word essere comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (To be.), Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi, Ancient Greek (to 1453) λόγῳ, Proto-Indo-European *bʰowHéyeti, Ancient Greek (to 1453) ὀυτ-
*h₁ésti (Proto-Indo-European)
To be.
*h₁ésmi (Proto-Indo-European)
λόγῳ (Ancient Greek)
*bʰowHéyeti (Proto-Indo-European)
ὀυτ- (Ancient Greek)
*som (Proto-Italic)
*fuiō (Proto-Italic)
To become.
*ezom (Proto-Italic)
Be.
*ehmi (Proto-Hellenic)
To be.
esom (Old Latin)
εἰμί (Ancient Greek)
παλαιός (Ancient Greek)
οὐσία (Ancient Greek)
fui (Latin)
*essere (Vulgar Latin)
ester (Old French)
To be. To stay; to remain.
essere (Italian)
(auxiliary, used to form composite past tense of many intransitive verbs) to have (done something); to be in the state of having (done something); See Category:Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary.. (impersonal, of a duration of time since an event) to have passed. (intransitive, indicating existence, identity, location, or state) to be Being.