Reconstruction:Latin/ecce ille

Etymology
From, an expression meaning 'there he is', changed into a regular determiner. Alternately a separate formation from +.

Determiner

 * 1) that

Reconstruction notes
Subsequently, /-e/ > /-i/, which had metaphonic effects in Old French (> ). That this change followed the common Proto-Gallo-Roman period, if one can be assumed, is suggested by comparison with the Catalan and Occitan outcomes of, where the stressed vowel underwent no such raising.