she

English

/ʃiː/, /ʃi/

pron
Definitions
  • (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
  • (personal) A ship or boat.
  • (personal) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
  • (personal) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
  • (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sche inherited from Old English hēo (she) derived from Proto-Germanic *hijō (this, this one) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe- (here, demonstrative particle).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ḱe-

Gloss

here, demonstrative particle

Concept
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