hire
Middle English
determiner
Definitions
- Third-person singular feminine genitive determiner: her, of her.
- Used in place of the possessive suffix m
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hiere (her) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (hij, gem-pro) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (here, this).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱe
Gloss
here, this
Concept
Semantic Field
Miscellaneous function words
Ontological Category
Other
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dehire English
- hers English
- hirable English
- hire English
- hiree English
- hireless English
- hireman English
- hirer English
- hireworthy English
- outhire English
- overhire English
- prehire English
- rehire English
- unhire English
- cis Latin
- citerior Latin
- *ḱe Proto-Indo-European
- *hezōi Proto-Germanic
- *hiz Proto-Germanic
- hiere Old English
- hyreborg Old English
- hyrling Old English
- hyrmann Old English
- hȳr Old English
- ere Middle English
- heore Middle English
- here Middle English
- hires Middle English
- *hūʀiju gmw-pro
- hiro Old Dutch
- *kina Proto-Celtic
- höör North Frisian
- *ťāmeron Proto-Hellenic