Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ты-вы: etymology ?

From: Sébastien de Mapias <sglrigaud@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:17:24 -0700

Hi,
Just for curiosity: the first persons of sing. and plural in
french, latin and russian are pretty close: is it by coincidence ?
What are the etymologies of ты and вы ?

I also saw that in hindi the french 'tu' is 'tum' (plus the very
familiar 'tu') too...

Thanks.
SR

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