lui French · revision 16209

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 881, Sequence of Saint Eulalia|origins=la ille}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /lɥi/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Belgium): /lwi/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lui''' ''m''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French unstressed [[m|fro|li]] (842), stressed ''lui'' (about 881).^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|lui]], [[inh|la-lat|illuī]], a remaking of [[m|la|ille|alt=illī|t=to that one]], the dative of the demonstrative “ille”, under the influence of [[m|la|quī|alt=cui]], the dative of the relative “quī”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(FEW|4, 550b) “Illuī” lost its unstressed first syllable, probably before 271, since Romanian also has [[m|ro|lui]].^(DHLF 1992) The old unstressed [[m|fro|li]] “to him, to her” comes from “illī” with the same loss.^(DHLF 1992) Littré followed Diez in deriving it from “*illi-huic”, comparing [[autrui]] and Old French “nului”.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Sequence of Saint Eulalia'' (about 881) uses ''lui'' after a preposition: ''et a lui nos laist venir'' “and may he let us come to him”.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ All the modern uses of the word already exist in Old French, before the 11th century.^(DHLF 1992) From the 13th century ''lui'' increasingly replaced the unstressed masculine ''li'' in all its uses, and had ousted it completely by Middle French.^(DHLF 1992) As a stressed subject, coordinated with another (''lui et sa gent''), it is found from 1160–74.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 842 – Unstressed ''li'' in the Strasbourg Oaths.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * c. 881 – Stressed ''lui'' in the ''Sequence of Saint Eulalia''.^(TLFi)

+ * 13th century – ''Lui'' begins to replace ''li''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Pronoun===

+ # (To) him, (to) her: indirect object pronoun of the third person singular: ''il lui parle''.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # [[m|en|him]], he: stressed form, after a preposition, as an attribute, or to emphasize the subject: ''à lui'', ''lui, il sait''.^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[il]]

+ * [[leur]]

+ * [[elle]]

+ * [[la|ille]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}