he
English
/ˈhiː/, /hi/, /hi/, /heɪː/
pron
Definitions
- (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
- (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
- (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
- A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English he inherited from Old English hē (hey) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hiz (this, this one).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hiz
Gloss
this, this one
Concept
Semantic Field
Miscellaneous function words
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bitch English
- female English
- he-bitch English
- he-she English
- hefemale English
- heorshe English
- here English
- or English
- she English
- she-he English
- *ḱe Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱe- Proto-Indo-European
- ham Norwegian Bokmål
- han Norwegian Bokmål
- *hes Proto-Germanic
- *hiu dagō Proto-Germanic
- *hiz Proto-Germanic
- *sa Proto-Germanic
- han Norwegian Nynorsk
- eala Old English
- he Old English
- hē Old English
- ha Middle English
- he Middle English
- hie Middle English
- hann Old Norse
- han Danish
- hann Icelandic
- hēr Old High German
- hann Faroese
- ata Albanian
- ato Albanian
- hie Old Dutch
- hīe Old Dutch
- he Old Saxon
- hē Old Saxon
- imu Old Saxon
- ina Old Saxon
- ira Old Saxon
- ire Old Saxon
- iro Old Saxon
- iru Old Saxon
- siu Old Saxon
- han Old Swedish
- he Scots
- hi Old Frisian
- hiōda Old Frisian
- hī Old Frisian
- *a-ta Proto-Albanian
- *a-tā(s) Proto-Albanian
- han Old Danish
- an Elfdalian
- *hānaʀ Proto-Norse