An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/uns

by Friedrich Kluge

uns, pronoun, ‘us, to us,’ from the equivalent Middle High German and Old High German uns, in the same form common to Teutonic to supplement the declension of wir. Compare Dutch ons, Old Low German and Anglo-Saxon âs (English us), Gothic uns. This uns (from ns) is certainly connected with Latin nos (noster), Greek ἡμεῖς (for *ἀσ-μεῖς), and Sanscrit nas, ‘us’; compare wir. — Allied to unser, possessive pronoun, ‘our,’ from Middle High German unser, Old High German unsêr, The detailed history of the prenom. stem belongs to grammar.